Lemma 1domus

nounfeminine

house, building; home, household; (N 4 1, older N 2 1); [domu => at home]

Morphology5 analyses

nominative singulardom + us · regular

vocative singulardom + us · regular

genitive singulardom + us · regular

nominative pluraldom + us · regular

vocative pluraldom + us · regular

Lewis & Short

key · domusFull entry

dŏmus, ūs and i, f. [Sanscr. damas, house; Gr. root, to build, whence for; cf. Germ. Zimmer; Eng. timber, etc.]

I.a house, home (for syn. cf. aedes, casa, domicilium, habitatio; mansio, sedes, tectum, tugurium; aedificium, moles). — Forms of the cases.

a.Sing.

(a).Nom.

(b).Gen., in the comic poets only the ante-class. form domi; acc. to Don. Ter. l. l.: decora domi, Caecil. ap. Don. l. l.: conviva domi, Afran. ap. But since Varro (except as infra, 2.): Müll. (twice); et saep. The uncontr. form domuis, Varr. ap.; and Nigidius, acc. to; the form domos, used by Augustus exclusively, acc. to (or domuos, acc. to Ritschl; SENATVOS from senatus in the S. C. de Bacan.).

(g).Dat.; (ex conj. Lachm.; also )

(d).Acc.; 26 et saep. — Apoc. form do = (for ): endo suam do, Enn. ap. P. — Voc.: domus, Enn. ap.; id. ap. — Abl., usually domo; (four times) et saep.

b.Plur.

(a).Nom., only domus.

(b).Gen.: domorum (poet.)

(g).Dat. and abl., only domibus, Müll.

(d).Acc. usually domos; (twice); et saep. The MSS. often vary between domos and domus; Beier; Drak.; Oud.; The form domus is certain, Att. ap.; Quadrig.

2.Adverbial forms.

a.Domi also domui in good MSS. of; (twice); and in the order domi meae, Cato ap. P.

b.Domum, home, homewards, to the house, et saep.; et saep.: ed. Orell. — When more persons than one are spoken of, the plur. is freq. used; and: suas domos, Liv 2, 7; but the sing. also. — Sometimes also with in and acc.

c.Domo.

(a).From home, out of the house.

(b).For domi, at home, in the house (rare): tabulae domo asservantur. — With in.

3.In colloq. lang.: domi habere aliquid, to have a thing at home, i. e. to have it about one, to have in abundance, to be provided with it, to have or know it one's self: Ruhnk. In a like sense; sed quid ego nunc haec ad te, cujus domi nascuntur?

B.Poet. transf., any sort of building or abode. So of the labyrinth; sq.

II.Meton.

A.In a wider sense, one's native place, country, home. M. Su. Siculus sum Syracusanus. M. So. Ea domus et patria est mihi; also with patria as an adjective; also: domi aetatem agere, opp. patriă procul, Enn. ap. — Hence, the phrases belli domique, and domi militiaeque, in war and peace, v. bellum and militia.

B.A household, family, race (cf. the Gr., and the Heb., v. Gesen. Lex. s. h. v. 7); (twice) — Hence.

b.In philos lang., a philosophical school, sect.