domicilium

Latin

Etymology

• From domus (“home, house”) + Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover”).
• Or from domus (“home, house”) + colō (“inhabit, dwell”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [dɔ.mɪˈkɪ.li.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [do.miˈt͡ʃiː.li.um]

Noun

domicilium n (genitive domiciliī or domicilī); second declension

1. A habitation, dwelling, domicile, abode, home.

   Synonyms: domus, habitātiō, tēctum

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	domicilium	domicilia
genitive	domiciliī domicilī1	domiciliōrum
dative	domiciliō	domiciliīs
accusative	domicilium	domicilia
ablative	domiciliō	domiciliīs
vocative	domicilium	domicilia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Related terms

• domesticātim
• domesticātus
• domesticus
• domicēnium
• domicūrius
• domiporta
• domiseda
• domitius
• domucula
• domuitiō
• domuncula
• domus

Descendants

• Catalan: domicili
• English: domicile
• French: domicile
• German: Domizil
• Italian: domicilio
• Polish: domicyl
• Portuguese: domicílio
• Romanian: domiciliu
• Spanish: domicilio

References

• “domicilium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “domicilium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "domicilium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “domicilium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to dwell in a certain place: domicilium (sedem ac domicilium) habere in aliquo loco
    
  • to take up one's abode in a place, settle down somewhere: sedem ac domicilium (fortunas suas) constituere alicubi
    
• “domicilium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “domicilium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin