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  • * Domestic is derived from the Latin word domus, a house.

    The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature 1788

  • I think what I got wrong was the timing: the domus was a fairly late development.

    The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005

  • The house, and all of the activities that went on within it, he chose to call the domus, after the Latin root for the words “domestic” and “domesticated.”

    The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005

  • In such inscriptions the church building is generally referred to as domus Dei, domus orationis (the house of God, the house of prayer).

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

  • Much like Brian, I am particularly worried about the case of "domus".

    Making Light: Open thread 135 2010

  • David Goldfarb @ 296: The centurion in Life of Brian claims that, in the case of motion towards, "domus" takes the locative which he agrees is "domum".

    Making Light: Open thread 135 2010

  • The plural probably refers to the whole "domus" of the monarch and would include both Gauda and Hiempsal.

    A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885

  • Pompey’s house on the Esquiline had been decorated with the captured beaks of fifty pirate triremes and was nowadays known as the domus rostra—a shrine to his admirers all across Italy.

    Imperium Robert Harris 2006

  • Pompey’s house on the Esquiline had been decorated with the captured beaks of fifty pirate triremes and was nowadays known as the domus rostra—a shrine to his admirers all across Italy.

    Imperium Robert Harris 2006

  • Forum, the fragments from the basilica of Giunio Basso, also in Rome, or the marble inlays of the "domus" of Cupid and Psyche in Ostia.

    What Does The Prayer Really Say? 2010

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