dominionus

Latin

Alternative forms
  • domigniōnus, domignōnus, domniōnus, domniō
  • donjōnus, domgiō, dongiō, donjō, dungiō, dungeō, dunjō, dangiō
  • doglō, dunliō

Etymology

Borrowed from the Romance descendants of Vulgar Latin *dominiōnem (see Old Occitan domnhon, Old French donjon).

Attested beginning in the eleventh century, e.g. in a document from Mouzon[1] (Northeastern France) where it occurs in the form domniōne.[2]

Noun

dominiōnus m (genitive dominiōnī); second declension (Medieval Latin)

  1. donjon (central tower of a castle)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative dominiōnus dominiōnī
Genitive dominiōnī dominiōnōrum
Dative dominiōnō dominiōnīs
Accusative dominiōnum dominiōnōs
Ablative dominiōnō dominiōnīs
Vocative dominiōne dominiōnī

References
  • Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “dominionus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 353
  1. dominionus in Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1967– ) Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, Munich: C.H. Beck
  2. dunjo 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)
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.