dominate

Etymology 1
From, perfect active participle of , from ; see.

Verb

 * 1) To govern, rule or control by superior authority or power
 * 2) To exert an overwhelming guiding influence over something or someone
 * 3) To enjoy a commanding position in some field
 * 4) To overlook from a height.
 * 5)  To precede another  of a directed graph in all paths from the start of the graph to the other node.
 * 1) To overlook from a height.
 * 2)  To precede another  of a directed graph in all paths from the start of the graph to the other node.
 * 1)  To precede another  of a directed graph in all paths from the start of the graph to the other node.
 * 1)  To precede another  of a directed graph in all paths from the start of the graph to the other node.

Translations

 * Arabic: سَيْطَرَ
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:, superregi
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ido:
 * Interlingua: dominar
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Korean:
 * Latin:
 * Mirandese: adominar
 * Polish:, , ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: ,
 * Turkish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Galician:
 * Interlingua: dominar
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 우세(優勢)하다
 * Middle English: daunten
 * Polish: ,
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: olla ylivoimainen,
 * Korean: 좌우하다
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish:
 * Italian:
 * Korean:
 * Polish: ,

Etymology 2
Ultimately from Latin, either from the perfect active participle , or via phonetic alteration of the synonym , from the present active participle. Compare the pair,.

Adjective

 * 1) Dominant.

Usage notes

 * Dominate is less common than dominant as an adjective.
 * Some usage guides consider it incorrect to use dominate as an adjective.

Etymology 3
From (genitive singular ).

Noun

 * 1)  The late period of the Roman Empire, following the principate, during which the emperor's rule became more explicitly autocratic and remaining vestiges of the Roman Republic were removed from the formal workings of government; the reign of any particular emperor during this period.
 * 2) * 1996, Clare Krojzl (translator), Sebastian Hensel, III: From Diocletian to Alaric [1886, lecture notes], Theodor Mommsen (editor), A History of Rome Under the Emperors, C.H.Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Republished 2005, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), eBook, page 317,
 * The dominate of Diocletian and Constantine differs more sharply from the principate than the latter does from the Republic.
 * 1) * 1997, Thomas Dunlap (translator), Herwig Wolfram, The Roman Empire and Its Germanic Peoples, [1990, Das Reich und die Germanen],, 2005, Paperback, page 55,
 * Once someone had attained senatorial dignity by way of the successful tenure of some appropriate magistracy, one of the most important mechanisms of the dominate kicked in: all social rankings and professions were to a large extent heritable.
 * Once someone had attained senatorial dignity by way of the successful tenure of some appropriate magistracy, one of the most important mechanisms of the dominate kicked in: all social rankings and professions were to a large extent heritable.

Usage notes

 * The period begins 284 CE — the end of the and beginning of the reign of, who instituted reforms.
 * In the west, it ends 476 CE, with the collapse of the.
 * In the east, the end is taken either to be 565 CE (the end of 's reign) or 641 CE (the end of ' reign).

Translations

 * Dutch: dominaat
 * French: dominat
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese: dominato