dominatio

dominatio

Latin

Etymology

dominor +‎ -tiō

Noun

dominātiō f (genitive dominātiōnis); third declension

1. rule, dominion
2. mastery, power
3. domination
4. domain
5. despotism

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dominātiō	dominātiōnēs
Genitive	dominātiōnis	dominātiōnum
Dative	dominātiōnī	dominātiōnibus
Accusative	dominātiōnem	dominātiōnēs
Ablative	dominātiōne	dominātiōnibus
Vocative	dominātiō	dominātiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: dominació
• Dutch: dominatie
• Old French: dominacion
  • English: domination
  • French: domination
• Galician: dominación
• Italian: dominazione
• Occitan: dominacion
• Portuguese: dominação
• Romanian: dominație
• Spanish: dominación

References

• “dominatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “dominatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dominatio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• dominatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • oligarchy: paucorum dominatio or potentia
    
  • despotic, tyrannous rule: dominatio impotens
    
  • to destroy a despotism, tyranny: dominationem or dominatum refringere
    
  • to deliver the state from a tyranny: rem publicam in libertatem vindicare a or ex dominatione
    

Anagrams

• admonitiō