The story
- Latin · derived fromdominium“lordship, right of ownership”
- Middle French · derived fromdominion
- Middle English · inherited fromdominion
- English todaydominion
From Middle English dominion, from Middle French dominion, from Latin dominium (“lordship, right of ownership”), from dominus (“lord”), from domus (“house”). See demain, demesne, domain, dominium.
Words from the same roots
Latindominium all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.