German

Noun

Domina f ‎(genitive Domina, plural Dominas)

1. dominatrix

English

Noun

domina ‎(plural dominas)

1. The head of a nunnery.
   • 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society 1985, page 29:

     Each of the nuns was heard in her turn, while the others waited with the domina in the adjoining vestry.

2. A dominatrix.
   • 1997, Rosemary Hennessy, Chrys Ingraham, Materialist feminism: a reader in class, difference, and women's lives (page 294)

     Instead, Social Text "tarts up" the issue of sex work with sexy photos of dominas and cross-dressers, replicating, in a slightly more self-conscious and progressive way, the nineteenth-century exoticization […]

   • 2004, Pamela Church Gibson, More dirty looks: gender, pornography and power

     Dominas therefore stress the emotional and physical skill, as well as the dangers, involved in commercial S/M […]

Anagrams

• daimon, domain

Catalan

Verb

domina

1. third-person singular present indicative form of dominar
2. second-person singular imperative form of dominar

Finnish

Noun

domina

1. domina, dominatrix (dominant female in sadomasochistic practices)

Declension

French

Verb

domina

1. third-person singular past historic of dominer

Anagrams

• amidon

Italian

Verb

domina

1. third-person singular present indicative of dominare
2. second-person singular imperative of dominare

Anagrams

• damino, dinamo, domani, donami, modani, monadi, mondai, nomadi

Latin

Etymology

Feminine of dominus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈdo.mi.na/

Noun

domina f ‎(genitive dominae); first declension

1. lady or mistress of the house

Inflection

First declension.

Derived Terms

• (Vulgar Latin) domnicella

Descendants

References

• domina in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• domina in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• DOMINA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “domina”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /do.ˈmi.nɐ/

Verb

domina

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of dominar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of dominar

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dominari, French dominer.

Verb

a domina ‎(third-person singular present domină, past participle dominat) 1st conj.

1. to dominate

Conjugation

Synonyms

• stăpâni

Derived terms

Spanish

Verb

domina

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of dominar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of dominar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of dominar.