Noun: dom
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | dom |
| Plural m | dons |
Sample Sentences
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A comunidade benedictina reuniu-se hontem para eleger o novo abbade, na vaga de d. Ruperto Rudolf, fallecido em São Paulo.
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Foi eleito dom Placido Etaeb. (The Benedictine community gathered yesterday to elect a new abbot, in place of Dom Ruperto Rudolf, who died in São Paulo.
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Dom Placido Etaeb was elected.) [1930 January 3, “O novo abbade benedictino [The new Benedictine abbot]”, in Correio da Manhã, volume XXIX, number 10742, page 5:]
Nouns inflected like dom
lanternim,
saguim,
capetagem,
sonhim,
ultrassom,
ultra-som,
bombaim,
boletim,
albergagem,
berbequim,
pangolim,
pebolim,
zunzum,
bergantim,
borzeguim,
serafim,
pasquim,
porta-bagagem,
semitom,
paladim, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese dom, don, from Late Latin domnus, a syncopated form of Latin dominus (“lord, master”). The Latin form survived in ecclesiastical usage, evolving in Old Portuguese (and Western Romance) via cluster simplification from -mn- to -m-/-n-, with dom standardizing in Portuguese and don in Spanish. See: Latin Nouns '
dominus'.
Verbs referencing "dom"
English Nouns
Dom.
Translations