domina

From Latin domina (“mistress”). Doublet of dame and donna.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɒmɪnə/

domina (plural dominas)

1. The head of a nunnery.
   • 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society 1985, page 29:

     Each of the nuns was heard in her turn, while the others waited with the domina in the adjoining vestry.

2. A dominatrix.
   • 1997, Rosemary Hennessy, Chrys Ingraham, Materialist feminism: a reader in class, difference, and women's lives, page 294:

     Instead, Social Text "tarts up" the issue of sex work with sexy photos of dominas and cross-dressers, replicating, in a slightly more self-conscious and progressive way, the nineteenth-century exoticization […]

   • 2004, Pamela Church Gibson, More dirty looks: gender, pornography and power:

     Dominas therefore stress the emotional and physical skill, as well as the dangers, involved in commercial S/M […]

• dominus

• Amidon, Imonda, daimon, domain

domina

1. third-person singular present indicative form of dominar
2. second-person singular imperative form of dominar

• IPA^(key): [ˈdomɪna]
• Rhymes: -ɪna

domina f

1. domina, domme, dominatrix (dominant female in sadomasochistic practices)

• domina in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• domina in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

From Latin domina.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdominɑ/, [ˈdo̞minɑ]
• Rhymes: -ominɑ
• Syllabification^(key): do‧mi‧na

domina

1. (BDSM) domina, domme, dominatrix (dominant female in sadomasochistic practices)

• maidon, monadi, nomadi

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domina

1. third-person singular past historic of dominer

• amidon

domina

1. inflection of dominare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• damino, dinamo, domani, donami, indoma, modani, monadi, mondai, nomadi

Feminine of dominus.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈdo.mi.na/, [ˈd̪ɔmɪnä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈdo.mi.na/, [ˈd̪ɔːminä]

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domina f (genitive dominae, masculine dominus); first declension

1. lady or mistress of the house

First-declension noun (dative/ablative plural in -īs or -ābus).

• domna (Vulgar, Late and Medieval Latin)

• domna (Vulgar, Late and Medieval Latin)
• domicella (Medieval Latin)
• *domnicella (Vulgar Latin)

• “domina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “domina”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• domina 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)
• domina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

Borrowed from Latin domina. Doublet of dama.

• IPA^(key): /dɔˈmi.na/

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• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: do‧mi‧na

domina f

1. dominatrix (dominant female in sadomasochistic practices)

• domina in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• domina in Polish dictionaries at PWN

domina

1. inflection of dominar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Borrowed from Latin dominārī, or via French dominer/Italian dominare (both borrowings from Latin).

a domina (third-person singular present domină, past participle dominat) 1st conj.

1. to dominate

• stăpâni

domina

1. inflection of dominar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative