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- Latin · borrowed fromdominus“master”
- English todaydominus
Borrowed from Latin dominus (“master”). Doublet of dan, dom, domine, dominie, and don.
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
dominus
Today it means: master; sir; a title of respect formerly applied to a knight or clergyman, and sometimes to the lord of a manor, castle or an academic master Full definition →
Latin dominus