Latin

Adjective

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

1. Of the house; domestic; familiar; native
2. (New Latin) Used as a species epithet

Inflection

First/second declension.

Derived terms

• domesticō
• domesticātim

Descendants

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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “domesticus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, 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)
    

1. ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill