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See also: Appendix:Variations of "dom"
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English -dom, from Old English -dōm (“-dom: state, condition, power, authority, property, right, office, quality”, suffix), from Proto-West Germanic *-dōm, from Proto-Germanic *-dōmaz.
Cognate with Scots -dom (“-dom”), North Frisian -dom (“-dom”), West Frisian -dom (“-dom”), Dutch -dom (“-dom”), Low German -dom (“-dom”), German -tum (“-dom”), Danish -dom (“-dom”) -dømme (“-dom”), Swedish -dom (“-dom”) -döme (“-dom”), Norwegian -dom (“-dom”), Icelandic -dómur (“-dom”), Norwegian Bokmål -dømme, Norwegian Nynorsk -døme. Same as Old English dōm (“doom, judgment, sentence, condemnation, ordeal, judicial sentence, decree, ordinance, law, custom; justice, equity; direction, ruling, governing, command; might, power, supremacy, majesty, glory, magnificence, splendor, reputation, honor, praise, dignity, authority; state, condition”). No relation to English domain or dominion. More at doom.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /-dəm/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Suffix
-dom
- Forms nouns denoting the condition or state of the root word.
- Forms nouns denoting the domain or jurisdiction of the root word.
- Forms nouns — usually nonce words — denoting the set of all examples of the suffixed word.
- 2011 March 19, Caitlin Moran, The Times:
- It is only the English language that has let the cabbage down – giving it, quite frankly, the ugliest name in all of veg-dom.
- 1995, Isabel Fonseca, Bury Me Standing, Vintage, published 2007, page 74:
- there always seemed to be one outrageous beauty: an angel who would have been forced into indentured topmodeldom had she been found on a Paris bus; or a wavy-lipped, chisel-chinned, almond-eyed boy-warrior out of the Iliad, as beautiful as humans come.
- (fandom slang) Forms nouns denoting the fandom of the suffixed word.
Derived terms
condition or state
Translations
Etymology 2
From dom, shortening of variously domination, dominance, or dominator.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /-dɒm/
- (General American) IPA(key): /-dɑm/
Suffix
-dom
- (BDSM) Forms uncountable nouns denoting a type of domination.
- (BDSM) Forms countable nouns denoting a type of dominator.
Derived terms
Anagrams
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Danish
Etymology
From Old Danish -dom, from Old Norse -dómr.
Suffix
-dom
- Indicates a condition, situation or period.
- Indicates a religion, teaching or similar.
Declension
Derived terms
See also
References
- “-dom” in Den Danske Ordbog
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Low German
Middle English
Norwegian Bokmål
Norwegian Nynorsk
Old English
Old Saxon
Swedish
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