Dominica

English

Etymology

From Latin Dominica (Lord's Day [Island], Sunday [Island]) due to being sighted by Columbus on a Sunday.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˌdɒ.mɪ.ˈniː.kə/, /də.ˈmɪ.nɪ.kə/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˌdɑ.mɪ.ˈniː.kə/, /də.ˈmɪ.nɪ.kə/
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Proper noun

Dominica

  1. An island and country in the Caribbean. Official name: Commonwealth of Dominica.

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Asturian

Proper noun

Dominica

  1. Dominica (an island and country in the Caribbean)

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic) IPA(key): /do.miˈni.kə/
  • (Central) IPA(key): /du.miˈni.kə/
  • (Valencian) IPA(key): /do.miˈni.ka/
  • (file)

Proper noun

Dominica f

  1. Dominica (an island and country in the Caribbean)

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Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Dominica

  1. Dominica (a country in North America)

Finnish

Etymology

From Latin Dominica.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdominikɑ/, [ˈdo̞miˌnikɑ]

Proper noun

Dominica

  1. Dominica (an island and country in the Caribbean)

Declension

Inflection of Dominica (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative Dominica
genitive Dominican
partitive Dominicaa
illative Dominicaan
singular plural
nominative Dominica
accusative nom. Dominica
gen. Dominican
genitive Dominican
partitive Dominicaa
inessive Dominicassa
elative Dominicasta
illative Dominicaan
adessive Dominicalla
ablative Dominicalta
allative Dominicalle
essive Dominicana
translative Dominicaksi
instructive
abessive Dominicatta
comitative
Possessive forms of Dominica (type kulkija)
possessor singular plural
1st person Dominicani Dominicamme
2nd person Dominicasi Dominicanne
3rd person Dominicansa

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /doˈmiːnika/
  • (file)

Proper noun

Dominica n (proper noun, genitive Dominicas or (optionally with an article) Dominica)

  1. Dominica (an island and country in the Caribbean)

Italian

Proper noun

Dominica f

  1. Dominica (an island and country in the Caribbean)

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Latin

Etymology

Ellipsis of diēs Dominica (Lord’s Day, day of the Lord, Sunday), used for the island of Dominica since it was sighted by Christopher Columbus on a Sunday.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /doˈmi.ni.ka/, [d̪ɔˈmɪnɪkä]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /doˈmi.ni.ka/, [d̪oˈmiːnikä]

Proper noun

Dominica f (genitive Dominicae); first declension

  1. (Ecclesiastical Latin) Sunday
    • 1717, Breviarium Sacri Ordinis Cartusiensis [Breviary of the Holy Carthusian Order]:
      Excipiuntur Dominicæ contingentes in Festo Exaltationis sanctæ Crucis
      Sundays coincident with the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross are excepted
  2. (New Latin) Dominica (an island and country in the Caribbean)

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative Dominica Dominicae
Genitive Dominicae Dominicārum
Dative Dominicae Dominicīs
Accusative Dominicam Dominicās
Ablative Dominicā Dominicīs
Vocative Dominica Dominicae
Locative Dominicae Dominicīs

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Dominica

  1. Dominica (an island and country in the Caribbean)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Dominica

  1. Dominica (an island and country in the Caribbean)

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Dominica f

  1. Alternative form of Domínica

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /domiˈnika/ [d̪o.miˈni.ka]
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ika
  • Syllabification: Do‧mi‧ni‧ca

Proper noun

Dominica f

  1. Dominica (an island and country in the Caribbean)

Derived terms


Swedish

Proper noun

Dominica n (genitive Dominicas)

  1. Dominica (an island and country in the Caribbean)
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