domus – Latin noun declension

Noun: domus
Hyphenation:

Gender: Feminine Declension: Second, Fourth

Nominative

Singular	domus
Plural	domūs

Genitive

Singular	domūs; domī
Plural	domuum; domōrum

Dative

Singular	domuī; domō
Plural	domibus

Accusative

Singular	domum
Plural	domūs; domōs

Ablative

Singular	domū; domō
Plural	domibus

Vocative

Singular	domus
Plural	domūs

Sample Sentences

Deō domuīque (For God and for home (motto of Methodist Ladies' College, Melbourne))
Stet fortūna domūs (Let the good fortune of the house stand (motto of Harrow School, England))
nox erat et tōta lūmina nūlla domō (It was night, and [there were] no lights in the whole house.) [8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 2.792]
domum trahere (to drag into one's pocket)
Domī versūra fit. (One is one's own creditor. (proverb))
domō afferre (to conceive on one's own)
id nunc experior domō (Now I'm learning this first-hand.) [c. 190 BCE – 185 BCE, Plautus, Amphitruo 637]
bellī domīque; bellō domīque; vel bellī vel domī; domī bellōque; domī mīlitiaeque (in war and peace)
ut non quietior populus domi esset quam militiae (so that the people should not become lazier in the time of peace than that of war) [27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita 1.38]

Nouns inflected like domus

domus,

Etymology

1. From Proto-Italic *domos, from Proto-Indo-European *dṓm (“house, home”), from root *dem- (“to build”). Cognates include Ancient Greek δόμος (dómos), Albanian dhomë (“a chamber, a room”), Avestan 𐬛𐬀𐬨- (dam-) Sanskrit दम (dáma), Proto-Slavic *domъ and further to English timber. At least indirectly cognate to Latin dominus.
2. The feminine gender is probably due to the original root noun; attempts to transfer it to the 4th declension are due to 2nd declension feminines being unusual outside of tree names. Some manuscripts of Plautus show forms in dem-; De Vaan (2008) doubts their authenticity. See: Ancient Greek Nouns 'δόμος', English Nouns 'timber', Latin Nouns 'dominus'.

Verbs referencing "domus"

English Nouns dame, English Nouns timber, Old English Nouns timber, Dutch Nouns dom, Portuguese Nouns domo, English Nouns domus, Ancient Greek Nouns δόμος, English Nouns dommy, Finnish Nouns tuomiokirkko, Latvian Nouns nams.