Noun: domino
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | domino |
| Plural m | dominos |
Sample Sentences
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1941 "Suzanne ramena sur sa tête le capuchon du domino, fit un pas et déclama soudain …" (Georges Duhamel, Suzanne et les jeunes hommes, p. 144)
Nouns inflected like domino
trichogramme,
wintergreen,
urinoir,
contrespionnage,
aréomètre,
palefroi,
whiskey,
whippin,
tee-shirt,
hypocycloïde,
surrisque,
lanternon,
dissentiment,
phonogramme,
phonographe,
trioxygène,
fétichisme,
synode,
synthé,
modérantisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin dominō, from Latin dominus (“lord, master”), perhaps from a prayer formula such as "benedicamus domino". The development of the modern meaning is unclear, perhaps from the black color of the early domino tiles. See: Latin Nouns '
dominus'.
Verbs referencing "domino"
English Nouns
domino, Finnish Nouns
domino, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
domino, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
domino, Romanian Nouns
domino, Portuguese Nouns
dominó.
Translations