domare

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to tame
  2. (transitive) to crush, subdue, quell
  3. (transitive) to control, curb
  4. (rare, transitive) to wear out (clothing)
  5. (literary, transitive) to make malleable

Frequency

26k
Hyphenated as
do‧mà‧re
Pronounced as (IPA)
/doˈma.re/
Etymology

From Latin domāre, from Proto-Italic *domaō, from Proto-Indo-European *domh₂éyeti, causative form of the root *demh₂- (“to domesticate, tame”).

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