domicile

Meaninga dwelling

Common meaning: a place of residence

doma house, a homeLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 609 · scan
icilenoun ending: a place

Journey through time

Aryan root · reconstructed√DAM‘build’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 151, p. 735 · scan
Latindomus, -ūs‘a house, a home’
Old Frenchdomicilesource
Englishdomicile‘a place of residence’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Latin domus ‘a house, a home’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Lewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), entry domus, p. 609 · dictionary scan; Skeat, Etymological Dictionary (1898), entry DOME, p. 176 · dictionary scan

Roots

domus, -ūs Latin “a house, a home”

Related words

dome domestic

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