domus

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  A farmstead with its people, plants and animals, considered as a unit.
 * 2)  In the UK a college (or collectively its fellows) in Cambridge or Oxford.
 * 1)  In the UK a college (or collectively its fellows) in Cambridge or Oxford.

Etymology
For, from , from root. Cognates include 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and further to 🇨🇬. At least indirectly cognate to 🇨🇬.

The feminine gender is probably due to the original root noun; attempts to transfer it to the 4th declension are due to 2nd declension feminines being unusual outside of tree names. Some manuscripts of Plautus show forms in dem-; De Vaan (2008) doubts their authenticity.

Noun

 * 1) house, home
 * 2) a townhouse
 * 3) any dwelling-place or abode
 * 4) the place of one's birth or residence, native country, town
 * 5) household, family
 * 6) a group of disciples, school; an intellectual movement
 * 7)  house, dynasty
 * 8)  one's own possessions or resources
 * 9)  peace
 * 1) the place of one's birth or residence, native country, town
 * 2) household, family
 * 3) a group of disciples, school; an intellectual movement
 * 4)  house, dynasty
 * 5)  one's own possessions or resources
 * 6)  peace
 * 1)  one's own possessions or resources
 * 2)  peace
 * 1)  peace
 * 1)  peace
 * 1)  peace
 * 1)  peace

Usage notes

 * This is one of a handful of common nouns that take the locative case; others are, and.
 * It is irregular in that it has a mix of second and fourth declension forms, the second declension forms being more idiomatic. The classically most common declension is as follows:
 * domus, domūs, domuī, domum, domō — domūs, domōrum, domibus, domōs, domibus.