domito

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin domitus, perfect passive participle of domō (to tame, conquer) originating from Proto-Italic *domatos, from Proto-Indo-European *domh₂tos, derived from the root *demh₂- (to tame).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdɔ.mi.to/
  • Rhymes: -ɔmito
  • Hyphenation: dò‧mi‧to

Adjective

domito (feminine domita, masculine plural domiti, feminine plural domite)

  1. (literary) tamed
    Synonyms: domato, (literary) domo
    Antonyms: (literary) indomito, (poetic) indomo

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Frequentative of domō (I tame, conquer).

Verb

domitō (present infinitive domitāre, perfect active domitāvī, supine domitātum); first conjugation

  1. (rare) to tame
Conjugation
Descendants
  • Old French: donter

Etymology 2

See domitus

Participle

domitō

  1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of domitus

References

  • domito”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • domito”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • domito in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) to overcome one's passions: coercere, cohibere, continere, domitas habere cupiditates