"dominus" meaning in Latin

See dominus in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: [ˈdɔ.mɪ.nʊs] [Classical-Latin], [ˈdɔː.mi.nus] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: The original identity of the second vowel of this word is unclear: * from Proto-Italic *dom-o/u-nos (“of the house”); both u- and o-stems are found in other branches; * from Proto-Italic *domanos, from Proto-Indo-European *domHnos (“homeowner”), from *dṓm (“house”) + *-Hō (Hoffmann's suffix) via the oblique stem *-Hn-. In either case, likely further related to domus, from Proto-Italic *domos, from Proto-Indo-European *dem- (“to build”). Etymology templates: {{etymon|la|:inh|itc-pro:*domanos<id:master>|id=master}}, {{inh|la|itc-pro||*dom-o/u-nos|of the house}} Proto-Italic *dom-o/u-nos (“of the house”), {{inh|la|itc-pro|*domanos}} Proto-Italic *domanos, {{inh|la|ine-pro||*domHnos|t=homeowner}} Proto-Indo-European *domHnos (“homeowner”), {{cog|itc-pro|*domos}} Proto-Italic *domos, {{der|la|ine-pro|*dem-||to build}} Proto-Indo-European *dem- (“to build”) Head templates: {{la-noun|dominus<2>|f=domina}} dominus m (genitive dominī, feminine domina); second declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|dominus<2>}} Forms: dominī [genitive], domina [feminine], no-table-tags [table-tags], dominus [nominative, singular], dominī [nominative, plural], dominī [genitive, singular], dominōrum [genitive, plural], dominō [dative, singular], dominīs [dative, plural], dominum [accusative, singular], dominōs [accusative, plural], dominō [ablative, singular], dominīs [ablative, plural], domine [singular, vocative], dominī [plural, vocative]
  1. master, possessor, ruler, lord, proprietor Tags: declension-2, masculine Synonyms: erus, domnus, arbiter
    Sense id: en-dominus-la-noun-qVJBrmOp
  2. owner of a residence; master of his servants and slaves Tags: declension-2, masculine
    Sense id: en-dominus-la-noun-hsYfLwxC Categories (other): Slavery Disambiguation of Slavery: 15 31 15 16 23
  3. master of a feast, entertainer, host Tags: declension-2, masculine
    Sense id: en-dominus-la-noun-uB4Xbt-T
  4. master of a play or of public games, employer of players or gladiators Tags: declension-2, masculine
    Sense id: en-dominus-la-noun-MHfFGDBZ
  5. sir (a greeting, in the vocative case) Tags: declension-2, masculine
    Sense id: en-dominus-la-noun-J28NVbt5 Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin masculine nouns in the second declension, Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 22 6 9 25 38 Disambiguation of Latin masculine nouns in the second declension: 20 15 16 14 36 Disambiguation of Pages with 4 entries: 12 10 12 27 38 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 7 6 7 27 52
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: DN, domicellus, domina, domināns, dominanter, dominātiō, dominātor, dominātrīx, dominātus, dominellus, dominicus, dominiōnus, dominium, dominius, dominor, Dominus, dominus patriae, dominus plebis, dominus terrae, domnus

Inflected forms

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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "DN"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "domicellus"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "domina"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "domināns"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "dominanter"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "dominātiō"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "dominātor"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "dominātrīx"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "dominātus"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "dominellus"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "dominicus"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "dominiōnus"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "dominium"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "dominius"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "dominor"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "Dominus"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "dominus patriae"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "dominus plebis"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "dominus terrae"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "domnus"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Aragonese",
          "lang_code": "an",
          "word": "dueño"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Italian",
          "lang_code": "it",
          "word": "donno"
        },
        {
          "descendants": [
            {
              "lang": "Galician",
              "lang_code": "gl",
              "word": "dono"
            },
            {
              "lang": "Portuguese",
              "lang_code": "pt",
              "word": "dono"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "Old Galician-Portuguese",
          "lang_code": "roa-opt",
          "word": "dono"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Sardinian",
          "lang_code": "sc",
          "word": "donnu"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Sicilian",
          "lang_code": "scn",
          "word": "donnu"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "lang_code": "es",
          "word": "dueño"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Late Latin",
      "lang_code": "la",
      "raw_tags": [
        "reshaped by analogy or addition of morphemes"
      ],
      "word": "domnus"
    },
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        {
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            {
              "lang": "Tagalog",
              "lang_code": "tl",
              "raw_tags": [
                "borrowed"
              ],
              "word": "dóminó"
            }
          ],
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          "lang_code": "es",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "dominó"
        },
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          "lang": "French",
          "lang_code": "fr",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "domino"
        }
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      "lang_code": "la",
      "raw_tags": [
        "reshaped by analogy or addition of morphemes"
      ],
      "word": "dominō"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Basque",
      "lang_code": "eu",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "done"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "lang_code": "ca",
      "word": "en"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "lang_code": "ca",
      "word": "na"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "lang_code": "nl",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "dominee"
    },
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      "lang_code": "en",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "domine"
    },
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "dominie"
    },
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "dominus"
    },
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "don"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "word": "domino"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Old French",
      "lang_code": "fro",
      "word": "dam"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "word": "Dom"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "dómine"
    }
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": ":inh",
        "3": "itc-pro:*domanos<id:master>",
        "id": "master"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "etymon"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "itc-pro",
        "3": "",
        "4": "*dom-o/u-nos",
        "5": "of the house"
      },
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      "name": "inh"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "la",
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        "3": "*domanos"
      },
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      "name": "inh"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "",
        "4": "*domHnos",
        "t": "homeowner"
      },
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      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "itc-pro",
        "2": "*domos"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Italic *domos",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*dem-",
        "4": "",
        "5": "to build"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *dem- (“to build”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "The original identity of the second vowel of this word is unclear:\n* from Proto-Italic *dom-o/u-nos (“of the house”); both u- and o-stems are found in other branches;\n* from Proto-Italic *domanos, from Proto-Indo-European *domHnos (“homeowner”), from *dṓm (“house”) + *-Hō (Hoffmann's suffix) via the oblique stem *-Hn-.\nIn either case, likely further related to domus, from Proto-Italic *domos, from Proto-Indo-European *dem- (“to build”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dominī",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "domina",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dominus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dominī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dominī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dominōrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dominō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dominīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dominum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dominōs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dominō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dominīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "domine",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dominī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "dominus<2>",
        "f": "domina"
      },
      "expansion": "dominus m (genitive dominī, feminine domina); second declension",
      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "dominus<2>"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "master, possessor, ruler, lord, proprietor"
      ],
      "id": "en-dominus-la-noun-qVJBrmOp",
      "links": [
        [
          "master",
          "master"
        ],
        [
          "possessor",
          "possessor"
        ],
        [
          "ruler",
          "ruler"
        ],
        [
          "lord",
          "lord"
        ],
        [
          "proprietor",
          "proprietor"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "erus"
        },
        {
          "word": "domnus"
        },
        {
          "word": "arbiter"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "15 31 15 16 23",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "la",
          "name": "Slavery",
          "orig": "la:Slavery",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "owner of a residence; master of his servants and slaves"
      ],
      "id": "en-dominus-la-noun-hsYfLwxC",
      "links": [
        [
          "owner",
          "owner"
        ],
        [
          "residence",
          "residence"
        ],
        [
          "master",
          "master"
        ],
        [
          "servant",
          "servant"
        ],
        [
          "slave",
          "slave"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "master of a feast, entertainer, host"
      ],
      "id": "en-dominus-la-noun-uB4Xbt-T",
      "links": [
        [
          "feast",
          "feast"
        ],
        [
          "entertainer",
          "entertainer"
        ],
        [
          "host",
          "host"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "master of a play or of public games, employer of players or gladiators"
      ],
      "id": "en-dominus-la-noun-MHfFGDBZ",
      "links": [
        [
          "play",
          "play"
        ],
        [
          "public",
          "public"
        ],
        [
          "games",
          "games"
        ],
        [
          "employer",
          "employer"
        ],
        [
          "players",
          "players"
        ],
        [
          "gladiators",
          "gladiators"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "22 6 9 25 38",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "20 15 16 14 36",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin masculine nouns in the second declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "12 10 12 27 38",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 4 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "7 6 7 27 52",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "sir (a greeting, in the vocative case)"
      ],
      "id": "en-dominus-la-noun-J28NVbt5",
      "links": [
        [
          "sir",
          "sir"
        ],
        [
          "greeting",
          "greeting#English"
        ],
        [
          "vocative case",
          "vocative case#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈdɔ.mɪ.nʊs]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈdɔː.mi.nus]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dominus"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Latin 3-syllable words",
    "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
    "Latin lemmas",
    "Latin masculine nouns",
    "Latin masculine nouns in the second declension",
    "Latin nouns",
    "Latin second declension nouns",
    "Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic",
    "Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *dem-",
    "Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic",
    "Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Pages with 4 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "la:Slavery"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "DN"
    },
    {
      "word": "domicellus"
    },
    {
      "word": "domina"
    },
    {
      "word": "domināns"
    },
    {
      "word": "dominanter"
    },
    {
      "word": "dominātiō"
    },
    {
      "word": "dominātor"
    },
    {
      "word": "dominātrīx"
    },
    {
      "word": "dominātus"
    },
    {
      "word": "dominellus"
    },
    {
      "word": "dominicus"
    },
    {
      "word": "dominiōnus"
    },
    {
      "word": "dominium"
    },
    {
      "word": "dominius"
    },
    {
      "word": "dominor"
    },
    {
      "word": "Dominus"
    },
    {
      "word": "dominus patriae"
    },
    {
      "word": "dominus plebis"
    },
    {
      "word": "dominus terrae"
    },
    {
      "word": "domnus"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Aragonese",
          "lang_code": "an",
          "word": "dueño"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Italian",
          "lang_code": "it",
          "word": "donno"
        },
        {
          "descendants": [
            {
              "lang": "Galician",
              "lang_code": "gl",
              "word": "dono"
            },
            {
              "lang": "Portuguese",
              "lang_code": "pt",
              "word": "dono"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "Old Galician-Portuguese",
          "lang_code": "roa-opt",
          "word": "dono"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Sardinian",
          "lang_code": "sc",
          "word": "donnu"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Sicilian",
          "lang_code": "scn",
          "word": "donnu"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "lang_code": "es",
          "word": "dueño"
        }
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      "lang_code": "la",
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        "reshaped by analogy or addition of morphemes"
      ],
      "word": "domnus"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "descendants": [
            {
              "lang": "Tagalog",
              "lang_code": "tl",
              "raw_tags": [
                "borrowed"
              ],
              "word": "dóminó"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "lang_code": "es",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "dominó"
        },
        {
          "lang": "French",
          "lang_code": "fr",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "domino"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Medieval Latin",
      "lang_code": "la",
      "raw_tags": [
        "reshaped by analogy or addition of morphemes"
      ],
      "word": "dominō"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Basque",
      "lang_code": "eu",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "done"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "lang_code": "ca",
      "word": "en"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "lang_code": "ca",
      "word": "na"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "lang_code": "nl",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "dominee"
    },
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "domine"
    },
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "dominie"
    },
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "dominus"
    },
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "don"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "word": "domino"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Old French",
      "lang_code": "fro",
      "word": "dam"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "word": "Dom"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "dómine"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": ":inh",
        "3": "itc-pro:*domanos<id:master>",
        "id": "master"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "etymon"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "itc-pro",
        "3": "",
        "4": "*dom-o/u-nos",
        "5": "of the house"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Italic *dom-o/u-nos (“of the house”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "itc-pro",
        "3": "*domanos"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Italic *domanos",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "",
        "4": "*domHnos",
        "t": "homeowner"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *domHnos (“homeowner”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "itc-pro",
        "2": "*domos"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Italic *domos",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*dem-",
        "4": "",
        "5": "to build"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *dem- (“to build”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "The original identity of the second vowel of this word is unclear:\n* from Proto-Italic *dom-o/u-nos (“of the house”); both u- and o-stems are found in other branches;\n* from Proto-Italic *domanos, from Proto-Indo-European *domHnos (“homeowner”), from *dṓm (“house”) + *-Hō (Hoffmann's suffix) via the oblique stem *-Hn-.\nIn either case, likely further related to domus, from Proto-Italic *domos, from Proto-Indo-European *dem- (“to build”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dominī",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "domina",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dominus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dominī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dominī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dominōrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dominō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dominīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dominum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dominōs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dominō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dominīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "domine",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dominī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "dominus<2>",
        "f": "domina"
      },
      "expansion": "dominus m (genitive dominī, feminine domina); second declension",
      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "dominus<2>"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "master, possessor, ruler, lord, proprietor"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "master",
          "master"
        ],
        [
          "possessor",
          "possessor"
        ],
        [
          "ruler",
          "ruler"
        ],
        [
          "lord",
          "lord"
        ],
        [
          "proprietor",
          "proprietor"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "erus"
        },
        {
          "word": "domnus"
        },
        {
          "word": "arbiter"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "owner of a residence; master of his servants and slaves"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "owner",
          "owner"
        ],
        [
          "residence",
          "residence"
        ],
        [
          "master",
          "master"
        ],
        [
          "servant",
          "servant"
        ],
        [
          "slave",
          "slave"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "master of a feast, entertainer, host"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "feast",
          "feast"
        ],
        [
          "entertainer",
          "entertainer"
        ],
        [
          "host",
          "host"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "master of a play or of public games, employer of players or gladiators"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "play",
          "play"
        ],
        [
          "public",
          "public"
        ],
        [
          "games",
          "games"
        ],
        [
          "employer",
          "employer"
        ],
        [
          "players",
          "players"
        ],
        [
          "gladiators",
          "gladiators"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "sir (a greeting, in the vocative case)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sir",
          "sir"
        ],
        [
          "greeting",
          "greeting#English"
        ],
        [
          "vocative case",
          "vocative case#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈdɔ.mɪ.nʊs]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈdɔː.mi.nus]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dominus"
}

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