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Latin
Etymology
From domus + -ticus, on the analogy of rūsticus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
domesticus (feminine domestica, neuter domesticum); first/second-declension adjective
- Of the house; domestic; familiar; native
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- domesticus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (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)
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN