dominionus

Latin

Alternative forms

  • domigniōnus, domignōnus, domniōnus, domniō
  • donjōnus, domgiō, dongiō, donjō, dungiō, dungeō, dunjō, dangiō
  • doglō, dunliō

Etymology

From Old French donjon and Old Occitan domnhon.

First attested in the 1040s in a document from Mouzon.[1]

Noun

dominiōnus m (genitive dominiōnī); second declension (Medieval Latin)

  1. donjon (central tower of a castle)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative dominiōnus dominiōnī
genitive dominiōnī dominiōnōrum
dative dominiōnō dominiōnīs
accusative dominiōnum dominiōnōs
ablative dominiōnō dominiōnīs
vocative dominiōne dominiōnī

References

  • Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “dominionus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 353
  1. ^ dominionus in Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1967– ) Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, Munich: C.H. Beck