Dominica
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin Dominica (“Lord's Day [Island], Sunday [Island]”) due to being sighted by Columbus on a Sunday.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌdɒ.mɪˈniː.kə/, /dəˈmɪ.nɪ.kə/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌdɑ.mɪˈniː.kə/, /dəˈmɪ.nɪ.kə/
Audio (Southern England): (file) Audio (UK): (file) Audio (US): (file)
Proper noun
Dominica
- An island and country in the Caribbean. Official name: Commonwealth of Dominica.
Translations
island and country (Commonwealth of Dominica) in the Caribbean
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See also
countries in North America (appendix)edit
Anagrams
Asturian
Proper noun
Dominica
Catalan
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Central) [du.miˈni.kə]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [do.miˈni.kə]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [do.miˈni.ka]
Audio (Valencia): (file)
Proper noun
Dominica f
Derived terms
Central Nahuatl
Proper noun
Dominica
Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdominikɑ/, [ˈdo̞miˌnikɑ̝]
- Rhymes: -ikɑ
Proper noun
Dominica
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 | — | |
| abessive | Dominicatta | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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Derived terms
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /doˈmiːnika/
Audio: (file)
Proper noun
Dominica n (proper noun, genitive Dominicas or (optionally with an article) Dominica)
Italian
Proper noun
Dominica f
Anagrams
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 Latin) IPA(key): [dɔˈmɪ.nɪ.ka]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [d̪oˈmiː.ni.ka]
Proper noun
Dominica f (genitive Dominicae); first declension
- (Ecclesiastical Latin) Sunday
- 1717, Breviarium Sacri Ordinis Cartusiensis [Breviary of the Holy Carthusian Order][2]:
- Excipiuntur Dominicæ contingentes in Festo Exaltationis sanctæ Crucis
- Sundays coincident with the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross are excepted
- (New Latin) Dominica (an island and country in the Caribbean)
- (Early Medieval Latin) a female given name[1]
Declension
First-declension noun, with locative.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | Dominica | Dominicae |
| genitive | Dominicae | Dominicārum |
| dative | Dominicae | Dominicīs |
| accusative | Dominicam | Dominicās |
| ablative | Dominicā | Dominicīs |
| vocative | Dominica | Dominicae |
| locative | Dominicae | Dominicīs |
References
- ^ Guérard, Benjamin Edme Charles, editor (1844), Polyptyque de l'abbé Irminon[1] (in French and Latin), Tome Second, Paris: Imprimerie royale, page 212: “Ostrebertus servus et uxor ejus, Godelindis, habent secum infantes II, Godelegio et Dominicam, et de alia femina infantes IIII Aclebertum, Aclearium, Adalgudem. ― Ostrebertus the serf and his wife, Godelindis, have with them two children, Godelegio and Dominica, and by another woman four children, Aclebertus, Aclearius, and Adalgude.”
Norwegian Bokmål
Proper noun
Dominica
See also
Norwegian Nynorsk
Proper noun
Dominica
See also
Portuguese
Proper noun
Dominica f
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /domiˈnika/ [d̪o.miˈni.ka]
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -ika
- Syllabification: Do‧mi‧ni‧ca
Proper noun
Dominica f
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Japanese: ドミニカ (Dominika)
Swedish
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Proper noun
Dominica n (genitive Dominicas)
Related terms
See also
Further reading
- Dominica in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
- Utrikes namnbok (12th ed., 2024)
- Svensk MeSH
Welsh
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Dominica f
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
- Gweriniaeth Dominica (“Dominican Republic”)