domus, domūs / domī

Definitions for domus

Wheelock's Latin

Noun

1
house, home
English derivatives:
domain domicile domestic domesticate dome major-domo

Oxford Latin Dictionary

Noun

1
The building in which a person dwells, house, home. (b) ~um. to one's home. home; (also) to the specified house. (c) ~i, (~ui). also ~o, at home.
2
A house (as a building), esp. a town house.
3
(a) (applied to the dwelling-place of a bird, animal, etc.; also to the shell or carapace of invertebrates). (b) (applied to a tomb or sim., as the home of a dead person).

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Sentences with domus

Latin to English

Cum frāter meus domī remanēret, ego tamen in novās terrās domō abiī .Compare Although my brother stayed at home, I nevertheless went away from home into new lands.

Ego Corneliam domum ducam.Compare I will take Cornelia home.

Felix, qui propriis aevum transegit in arvis, ipsa domus puerum quem videt, ipsa senem; qui baculo nitens in qua reptavit harena unius numerat saecula longa casae.Compare Happy the man who his whole time doth bound within the enclosure of his little ground. Happy the man whom the same humble place, the hereditary cottage of his race, from his first rising infancy has known. (Tr. Abraham Cowley)

Linquenda tellus et domus et placens uxor, neque harum, quas colis, arborum te prater invisas cupressos ulla brevem dominum sequetor.Compare The earth we need must leave, and house and wife of our choice; nor of the trees which you tend shall any save the hated cypresses go along with their short-lived master.

Diodutus Stoicus, caecus, multus annus domus noster vivo.Compare Diodotus the Stoic, when blind, lived many years at our house.

Hic domus sum ipse indicium tuus crudelis dominatus.Compare This house was itself a proof of your most cruel tyranny.

Domus tuus plus video sum vicinus Caesar.Compare I perceive that your house will be worth more, when Caesar is your neighbor.

Data sources

Notes

Definitions
Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 263.
P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 572.
Word frequencies
Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).

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Diederich, Paul B. The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1939.

Francese, Christopher. "Latin Core Vocabulary." Dickinson College Commentaries. Last modified 2014. http://dcc.dickinson.edu/latin-vocabulary-list.

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Citation

Chicago (17th ed.)

Allo Contributors. "domus, domūs / domī (n.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified August 19, 2023. Accessed November 22, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/domus-domus-i.