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Dom

See also: Appendix:Variations of "dom"

English

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Etymology 1

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Shortenings.

Proper noun

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Dom

  1. A unisex given name, a form of Dominic or Dominique.
  2. (BDSM) Alternative letter-case form of dom

Etymology 2

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From Portuguese dom, and its source, Latin dominus.

Noun

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Dom (plural Doms)

  1. A title given to royalty and high-ranking ecclesiastics in Portugal and Brazil.
  2. A title given to Roman Catholic monastic dignitaries.

Etymology 3

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From Hindi [Term?], from Sanskrit डोम (ḍoma).

Noun

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Dom (plural Doms)

  1. A caste (or member of this caste) in Indian society, originally comprising drummers or travelling musicians and now generally referring to a Dalit subcaste responsible for the cremation and disposal of dead bodies.
    • 2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 2:
      Chand Ghat, where Dolly lives, is primarily a Dom neighbourhood, home to a small community of corpse-burners.

Etymology 4

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Related to Rom and Lom.

Proper noun

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Dom

  1. An Indo-Aryan ethnic group, living mainly in the Middle East and North Africa.

Anagrams

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German

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Alternative forms

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  • Thum (obsolete since early 19th c.)

Etymology

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15th-century alteration (see below) of older Thum, from Middle High German and Old High German tuom, from Proto-West Germanic *dōm (whence Old Dutch duom, Middle Low German dôm), from Medieval Latin domus (literally “house”). The use probably goes back to domus episcopatus/episcopalis (“house of the bishopric”).[1][2] An alternative theory derives it from domus ecclesiae (“church house”), after Ancient Greek οἶκος τῆς ἐκκλησίας (oîkos tês ekklēsías).[3]

The modern alteration Dom follows Middle French dome, from Italian duomo, from the Latin. It was probably reinforced by the inherited Middle Low German form (see above).[4] Thum survived longest in the south.[5] The Dutch cognate dom was similarly influenced by French.

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Noun

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Dom m (strong, genitive Doms or Domes, plural Dome)

  1. cathedral (church serving as seat of a bishop, by extension, any large church)

Declension

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Declension of Dom [masculine, strong]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative ein der Dom die Dome
genitive eines des Doms, Domes der Dome
dative einem dem Dom, Dome1 den Domen
accusative einen den Dom die Dome

1Now rare, see notes.

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ „Dom“, in Pfeifer, Wolfgang et al.: Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (1993), digitalisierte Version im Digitalen Wörterbuch der Deutschen Sprache.
  2. ^ Philippa, Marlies, Debrabandere, Frans, Quak, Arend, Schoonheim, Tanneke, van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009) “dom1”, in Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands‎[1] (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press
  3. ^ Dom, Duden.
  4. ^ Paul, Hermann: Deutsche Grammatik, vol. I, Halle a.S., 1916, p. 333, 335.
  5. ^ Adelung, Johann Christoph: Grammatisch-Kritisches Wörterbuch der Hochdeutschen Mundart, vol. I, Leipzig, 1793, col. 1513.

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Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: Dom

Noun

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Dom m (plural Dons)

  1. honorific title usually used before a man's name, equivalent to Spanish Don; it has historically been used by members of the high nobility in Portugal and Brazil
    Synonym: (abbreviation) D.
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Saterland Frisian

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n'Dom.

Etymology

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From Old Frisian dam, from Proto-West Germanic *damm. Cognates include West Frisian dam and German Damm.

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Noun

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Dom m (plural Domme)

  1. dam

References

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  • Marron C. Fort (2015) “Dom”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN
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