Dominica
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin Dominica (“Lord's Day [Island], Sunday [Island]”) due to being sighted by Columbus on a Sunday.
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌdɒ.mɪ.ˈniː.kə/, /də.ˈmɪ.nɪ.kə/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌdɑ.mɪ.ˈniː.kə/, /də.ˈmɪ.nɪ.kə/
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Proper noun edit
Dominica
- An island and country in the Caribbean. Official name: Commonwealth of Dominica.
Translations edit
island and country (Commonwealth of Dominica) in the Caribbean
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See also edit
- (countries of North America) country of North America; Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Canada, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, United States of America
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Dominica
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- IPA(key): (Central) [du.miˈni.kə]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [do.miˈni.kə]
- IPA(key): (Valencian) [do.miˈni.ka]
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Dominica f
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Dominica
- Dominica (a country in North America)
Finnish edit
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Dominica
Declension edit
Inflection of Dominica (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Dominica | — | ||
genitive | Dominican | — | ||
partitive | Dominicaa | — | ||
illative | Dominicaan | — | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Dominica | — | ||
accusative | nom. | Dominica | — | |
gen. | Dominican | |||
genitive | Dominican | — | ||
partitive | Dominicaa | — | ||
inessive | Dominicassa | — | ||
elative | Dominicasta | — | ||
illative | Dominicaan | — | ||
adessive | Dominicalla | — | ||
ablative | Dominicalta | — | ||
allative | Dominicalle | — | ||
essive | Dominicana | — | ||
translative | Dominicaksi | — | ||
abessive | Dominicatta | — | ||
instructive | — | — | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Derived terms edit
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Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Dominica n (proper noun, genitive Dominicas or (optionally with an article) Dominica)
Italian edit
Proper noun edit
Dominica f
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Latin edit
Etymology edit
Ellipsis of diēs Dominica (“Lord’s Day, day of the Lord, Sunday”), used for the island of Dominica since it was sighted by Christopher Columbus on a Sunday.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /doˈmi.ni.ka/, [d̪ɔˈmɪnɪkä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /doˈmi.ni.ka/, [d̪oˈmiːnikä]
Proper noun edit
Dominica f (genitive Dominicae); first declension
- (Ecclesiastical Latin) Sunday
- 1717, Breviarium Sacri Ordinis Cartusiensis [Breviary of the Holy Carthusian Order][1]:
- Excipiuntur Dominicæ contingentes in Festo Exaltationis sanctæ Crucis
- Sundays coincident with the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross are excepted
- (New Latin) Dominica (an island and country in the Caribbean)
Declension edit
First-declension noun, with locative.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | Dominica | Dominicae |
Genitive | Dominicae | Dominicārum |
Dative | Dominicae | Dominicīs |
Accusative | Dominicam | Dominicās |
Ablative | Dominicā | Dominicīs |
Vocative | Dominica | Dominicae |
Locative | Dominicae | Dominicīs |
Norwegian Bokmål edit
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Dominica
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Dominica
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Dominica f
- Alternative form of Domínica
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Dominica f
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Audio (file)
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Dominica n (genitive Dominicas)