Masculine
dom
- (masculine) donation; gift; present
- (figuratively, masculine) benefit; merit; advantage; power; privilege
- (masculine) blessing; grace; mercy
- (masculine) talent; aptitude; ability; skill; flair
- (ironic, masculine) a knack for negative outcomes or discrediting oneself
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈdõ/
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese dom, don, from Late Latin domnus, a syncopated form of Latin dominus (“lord, master”). The Latin form survived in ecclesiastical usage, evolving in Old Portuguese (and Western Romance) via cluster simplification from -mn- to -m-/-n-, with dom standardizing in Portuguese and don in Spanish.
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