domus

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

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

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

  Simon & Schuster: The Goddess and the Bull

• “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.””

  Simon & Schuster: The Goddess and the Bull

• “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

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

  Making Light: Open thread 135

• “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

• “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

• “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.”

  Simon & Schuster: Imperium

• “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?

• “It's displayed upstairs along with kitchenware and tableware in the culina gallery, although it might have graced any room in the domus.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Gracious Art of Living

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