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Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin domitus, perfect passive participle of domō (“to tame, conquer”) originating from Proto-Italic *domatos, from Proto-Indo-European *domh₂tos, derived from the root *demh₂- (“to tame”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
domito (feminine domita, masculine plural domiti, feminine plural domite)
- (literary) tamed
- Synonyms: domato, (literary) domo
- Antonyms: (literary) indomito, (poetic) indomo
Latin
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Frequentative of domō (“I tame, conquer”).
Verb
domitō (present infinitive domitāre, perfect active domitāvī, supine domitātum); first conjugation
- (rare) to tame
Conjugation
Descendants
Etymology 2
See domitus
Participle
domitō
- dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of domitus
References
- “domito”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “domito”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- domito in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to overcome one's passions: coercere, cohibere, continere, domitas habere cupiditates