domino
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English
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Etymology
[edit]1801, borrowed from French domino (1771), originally the term for a hooded garment, itself from Medieval Latin domino, oblique case of dominus (“lord, master”); compare Medieval Latin dominicale (“a kind of veil”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: dŏ'mĭnō, IPA(key): /ˈdɒmɪnəʊ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (US) enPR: dämĭnō, IPA(key): /ˈdɑmɪnoʊ/
Audio (US): (file)
Noun
[edit]domino (plural dominos or dominoes)
- (dominoes) A tile divided into two squares, each having 0 to 6 (or sometimes more) dots or pips (as in dice), used in the game of dominoes. [from c. 1800]
- 2000, “The Hollow”, performed by A Perfect Circle:
- Dominoes of indiscretions down
Falling all around, in cycles, in circles
Constantly consuming
Conquer and devour
- (politics) A country that is expected to react to events in a neighboring country, according to the domino effect.
- A masquerade costume consisting of a hooded robe and a mask covering the upper part of the face.
- Synonym: domino costume
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 485:
- all the women were desirous of having the bundle immediately opened; which operation was at length performed by little Betsy, with the consent of Mr Jones: and the contents were found to be a domino, a mask, and a masquerade ticket.
- 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Masked Ball”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 175:
- The chair being announced, she fastened on her mask, and drew her domino round her, it not being her intention to display her splendid and fantastic costume till supper, when all the guests were expected to unmask.
- 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1007:
- Then he hunted for the black carnival domino, supposing that it was the appropriate thing for a penitent to wear.
- The mask itself.
- Synonyms: domino mask, half mask, eyemask
- 1872, James De Mille, The Cryptogram[1], HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2009:
- He wore a domino, but beneath it could be seen his whiskers, cut after the English fashion, and long and pendent.
- The person wearing the costume.
- (geometry) A polyomino made up of two squares.
- Synonym: 2-omino
- (music, colloquial) A mistake in performing.
- 1932, The Musical Times and Singing-class Circular, page 263:
- Any player is liable to make a 'domino' — that is to say, he goes wool-gathering and continues to play when everyone else has stopped. If he does so at a grown-up concert the fault is irredeemable […]
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]| n squares | name |
|---|---|
| 1 squares | monomino |
| 2 squares | domino |
| 3 squares | tromino or triomino |
| 4 squares | tetromino |
| 5 squares | pentomino |
| 6 squares | hexomino |
| 7 squares | heptomino |
| 8 squares | octomino |
| 9 squares | nonomino or enneomino |
| 10 squares | decomino |
| 11 squares | undecomino |
| 12 squares | dodecomino |
| n squares | n-omino |
| unspecified number squares |
polyomino |
Translations
[edit]block used in dominoes
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masquerade costume
mask
Verb
[edit]domino (third-person singular simple present dominoes, present participle dominoing, simple past and past participle dominoed)
- (intransitive) To collapse in the manner of dominoes.
- 2010, Ring of Fire: An Indonesian Odyssey, →ISBN, page 107:
- A dismasting often means the dominoing of one mast into the other, down through the decks, cannoning the cargo through the hull below, and sinking the ship very quickly.
- (transitive) To cause to collapse in the manner of dominoes.
Translations
[edit]collapse in the manner of dominoes
cause to collapse in the manner of dominoes
See also
[edit]etymologically unrelated terms
Further reading
[edit]- “domino”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “domino”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Anagrams
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[edit]domino
Czech
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[edit]Noun
[edit]domino n
Declension
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “domino”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “domino”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]domino
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of domino (Kotus type 2/palvelu, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | domino | dominot | |
| genitive | dominon | dominojen dominoiden dominoitten | |
| partitive | dominoa | dominoja dominoita | |
| illative | dominoon | dominoihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | domino | dominot | |
| accusative | nom. | domino | dominot |
| gen. | dominon | ||
| genitive | dominon | dominojen dominoiden dominoitten | |
| partitive | dominoa | dominoja dominoita | |
| inessive | dominossa | dominoissa | |
| elative | dominosta | dominoista | |
| illative | dominoon | dominoihin | |
| adessive | dominolla | dominoilla | |
| ablative | dominolta | dominoilta | |
| allative | dominolle | dominoille | |
| essive | dominona | dominoina | |
| translative | dominoksi | dominoiksi | |
| abessive | dominotta | dominoitta | |
| instructive | — | dominoin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Further reading
[edit]- “domino”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Medieval Latin dominō, from Latin dominus (“lord, master”), perhaps from a prayer formula such as "benedicamus domino". The development of the modern meaning is unclear, perhaps from the black color of the early domino tiles.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]domino m (plural dominos)
- black hooded cloak worn by priests in winter [1401]
- hooded garment worn at balls [1665]
- 1941 "Suzanne ramena sur sa tête le capuchon du domino, fit un pas et déclama soudain [...]" (Georges Duhamel, Suzanne et les jeunes hommes, p. 144)
- a paper marked with figures used to play board games [1514]
- dominoes [1771]
- (in the plural) a domino set
- (in the singular) a domino tile
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “domino”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Haitian Creole
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]domino
Italian
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from Latin dominus. Doublet of don.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]domino m (plural domini, feminine domina)
Etymology 2
[edit]Borrowed from French domino, from Medieval Latin dominō, dative of Latin dominus (“lord, master”); possibly from the liturgical phrase benedīcāmus Dominō (literally “let us bless the Lord”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]domino m (invariable)
- long robe shaped as a cloak with a hood, worn at masked balls
- (by extension) person wearing such a robe
Etymology 3
[edit]Borrowed from French domino, originally the same as Etymology 2; see above.[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]domino m (uncountable)
- dominoes (board game)
Etymology 4
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]domino
- inflection of domare:
Etymology 5
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]domino
References
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[edit]Romanization
[edit]domino
Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]dominō (present infinitive domināre, perfect active domināvī, supine dominātum); first conjugation
Usage notes
[edit]This is a regularised active form of the deponent verb dominor, which is much more common. The consequence of this situation is that dominor can occasionally mean "I am ruled" as well as the more usual sense "I rule".
Conjugation
[edit]| Conjugation of dominō (first conjugation) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | dominō | dominās | dominat | domināmus | dominātis | dominant |
| imperfect | dominābam | dominābās | dominābat | dominābāmus | dominābātis | dominābant | |
| future | dominābō | dominābis | dominābit | dominābimus | dominābitis | dominābunt | |
| perfect | domināvī | domināvistī | domināvit | domināvimus | domināvistis | domināvērunt, domināvēre | |
| pluperfect | domināveram | domināverās | domināverat | domināverāmus | domināverātis | domināverant | |
| future perfect | domināverō | domināveris | domināverit | domināverimus | domināveritis | domināverint | |
| passive | present | dominor | domināris, domināre |
dominātur | domināmur | domināminī | dominantur |
| imperfect | dominābar | dominābāris, dominābāre |
dominābātur | dominābāmur | dominābāminī | dominābantur | |
| future | dominābor | domināberis, dominābere |
dominābitur | dominābimur | dominābiminī | dominābuntur | |
| perfect | dominātus + present active indicative of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | dominātus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||
| future perfect | dominātus + future active indicative of sum | ||||||
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | dominem | dominēs | dominet | dominēmus | dominētis | dominent |
| imperfect | dominārem | dominārēs | domināret | dominārēmus | dominārētis | dominārent | |
| perfect | domināverim | domināverīs | domināverit | domināverīmus | domināverītis | domināverint | |
| pluperfect | domināvissem | domināvissēs | domināvisset | domināvissēmus | domināvissētis | domināvissent | |
| passive | present | dominer | dominēris, dominēre |
dominētur | dominēmur | dominēminī | dominentur |
| imperfect | dominārer | dominārēris, dominārēre |
dominārētur | dominārēmur | dominārēminī | dominārentur | |
| perfect | dominātus + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | dominātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | dominā | — | — | domināte | — |
| future | — | dominātō | dominātō | — | dominātōte | dominantō | |
| passive | present | — | domināre | — | — | domināminī | — |
| future | — | dominātor | dominātor | — | — | dominantor | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | domināre | domināvisse | dominātūrum esse | dominārī | dominātum esse | dominātum īrī | |
| participles | domināns | — | dominātūrus | — | dominātus | dominandus | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||
| dominandī | dominandō | dominandum | dominandō | dominātum | dominātū | ||
Noun
[edit]dominō
References
[edit]- domino in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
- “domino”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- domino 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)
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French domino, from Latin dominus.
Noun
[edit]domino m (definite singular dominoen, indefinite plural dominoer, definite plural dominoene)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “domino” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “domino_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
- “domino_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French domino, from Latin dominus.
Noun
[edit]domino m (definite singular dominoen, indefinite plural dominoar, definite plural dominoane)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “domino” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish
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Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]domino n (related adjective dominowy)
Declension
[edit]Declension of domino
Noun
[edit]domino n
- domino costume (loose hooded cloak worn with a half mask, worn especially at masquerades)
- Hypernym: płaszcz
Declension
[edit]Declension of domino
Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
[edit]domino f
Further reading
[edit]- domino in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- domino in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- domino in PWN's encyclopedia
Portuguese
[edit]Verb
[edit]domino
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]domino n (plural dominouri)
Declension
[edit]Declension of domino
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) domino | dominoul | (niște) dominouri | dominourile |
| genitive/dative | (unui) domino | dominoului | (unor) dominouri | dominourilor |
| vocative | dominoule | dominourilor | ||
Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]domino
Swedish
[edit]Noun
[edit]domino n (uncountable)
- dominoes; a type of game
Declension
[edit]Declension of domino
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | domino | dominos |
| definite | dominot | dominots | |
| plural | indefinite | — | — |
| definite | — | — | |
Tagalog
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish dominó, from French domino, from Medieval Latin domino, oblique case of dominus (“lord, master”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Tagalog)
- Syllabification: do‧mi‧no
Noun
[edit]dominó or dóminó (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜓᜋᜒᜈᜓ)
- dominoes (game)
- domino tile
- a kind of cloak with wide sleeves, hood, and mask (worn at masquerades)
- a small, black mask for the eyes
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “domino”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
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