Latin

Noun

domus f ‎(variously declined, genitive domūs or domī); fourth declension, second declension

1. house, home
   • Motto of Methodist Ladies' College, Melbourne

     Deo domuique.

     For God and for home.

   • First part of the motto of Harrow School, England

     Stet fortuna domus.

     Let the fortune of the house stand.

2. (poetic) any building or abode
3. native place, one's country or home (confer patria)
4. household, family, race

Usage notes

• Domus is one of a handful of common nouns that take the locative case, others are rus and humus. It is irregular in that it has a mix of second and fourth declension forms, the second declension forms being more commonly used in place constructions.

Declension

Fourth declension with locative, some alternative forms from the second declension.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Italian: duomo
  • French: dôme
• Sardinian: domo
• Sicilian: domu

See also

References

• domus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• domus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• DOMUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “domus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a comfortably-furnished house: domus necessariis rebus instructa
    
  • the house threatens to fall in (vid. sect. X. 5, note 'Threaten'...): domus ruina impendet
    
  • the house threatens to fall in (vid. sect. X. 5, note 'Threaten'...): domus collapsura, corruitura (esse) videtur
    
  • the house suddenly fell in ruins: domus subita ruina collapsa est
    
  • to demolish, raze a house: domum demoliri (Top. 4. 22)
    
  • the house is not large enough for all: domus non omnes capit (χωρειν)
    
  • to be a regular visitor at a house: domum frequentare (Sall. Cat. 14. 7)
    
  • the house walls are beginning to crack: domus rimas agit
    
  • (ambiguous) to welcome to one's house (opp. to shut one's door against some one): tecto, (in) domum suam aliquem recipere (opp. prohibere aliquem tecto, domo)
    
  • to welcome a man as a guest in one's house: hospitio aliquem accipere or excipere (domum ad se)
    
  • I am always welcome at his house: domus patet, aperta est mihi
    
  • (ambiguous) to invite some one to one's house: invitare aliquem tecto ac domo or domum suam (Liv. 3. 14. 5)
    
  • to give, undertake a contract for building a house: domum aedificandam locare, conducere
    
  • (ambiguous) to rush out of the house: se proripere ex domo
    
  • (ambiguous) I felt quite at home in his house: apud eum sic fui tamquam domi meae (Fam. 13. 69)
    
  • (ambiguous) to welcome to one's house (opp. to shut one's door against some one): tecto, (in) domum suam aliquem recipere (opp. prohibere aliquem tecto, domo)
    
  • (ambiguous) to never set foot out of doors: domo pedem non efferre
    
  • (ambiguous) to never appear in public: domi se tenere
    
  • (ambiguous) to escort a person from his house: deducere aliquem de domo
    
  • (ambiguous) at home; in one's native country: domi (opp. foris)
    
  • (ambiguous) to turn a person out of his house, his property: expellere aliquem domo, possessionibus pellere
    
  • (ambiguous) to live in some one's house: habitare in domo alicuius, apud aliquem (Acad. 2. 36. 115)
    
  • (ambiguous) to emigrate: domo emigrare (B. G. 1. 31)
    
  • (ambiguous) homeless: domo profugus (Liv. 1. 1)
    
  • (ambiguous) to invite some one to one's house: invitare aliquem tecto ac domo or domum suam (Liv. 3. 14. 5)
    
• domus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• domus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Volapük

Noun

domus

1. predicative plural of dom