domesticus

Latin

Etymology

From domus +‎ -ticus, on the analogy of rūsticus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /doˈmes.ti.kus/, [d̪ɔˈmɛs̠t̪ɪkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /doˈmes.ti.kus/, [d̪oˈmɛst̪ikus]

Adjective

domesticus (feminine domestica, neuter domesticum); first/second-declension adjective

1. Of the house; domestic; familiar; native

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	domesticus	domestica	domesticum		domesticī	domesticae	domestica
Genitive	domesticī	domesticae	domesticī		domesticōrum	domesticārum	domesticōrum
Dative	domesticō		domesticō		domesticīs
Accusative	domesticum	domesticam	domesticum		domesticōs	domesticās	domestica
Ablative	domesticō	domesticā	domesticō		domesticīs
Vocative	domestice	domestica	domesticum		domesticī	domesticae	domestica

Derived terms

• domesticō
• domesticātim

Descendants

• → Byzantine Greek: δομέστικος (doméstikos)
• Catalan: domèstic
• English: domestic
• French: domestique
  • → English: domestique
  • → German: Domestik
• Galician: doméstico
• Italian: domestico
• Occitan: domestic, domètge
• Old French: damesche, domesche
  • French: domêche (Lorraine)
• Portuguese: doméstico
• Romanian: domestic, dumesnic
• Spanish: doméstico, amiésgado

References

• “domesticus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “domesticus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• domesticus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• domesticus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be acquainted with the history of one's own land: domestica (externa) nosse
    
  • to keep house: rem domesticam, familiarem administrare, regere, curare
    
  • a civil war: bellum intestinum, domesticum (opp. bellum externum)