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Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
domicilium n (genitive domiciliī or domicilī); second declension
- A habitation, dwelling, domicile, abode, home.
- Synonyms: domus, habitātiō, tēctum
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
References
- “domicilium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “domicilium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- domicilium 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)
- domicilium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to dwell in a certain place: domicilium (sedem ac domicilium) habere in aliquo loco
- to take up one's abode in a place, settle down somewhere: sedem ac domicilium (fortunas suas) constituere alicubi
- “domicilium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “domicilium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin