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English word dome comes from Proto-Indo-European *dem-, Ancient Greek οἶκος τῆς ἐκκλησία|ἐκκλησίας, Ancient Greek δῶμα, and later Proto-Indo-European *dṓm (Home. House.)

*dem- (Proto-Indo-European)

to build

οἶκος τῆς ἐκκλησία|ἐκκλησίας (Ancient Greek)

δῶμα (Ancient Greek)

*dṓm (Proto-Indo-European)

Home. House.

domus (ecclesiae) (Latin)

*domos (Proto-Italic)

House, home.

domus (Latin)

(poetic) any building or abode. House, home. Household, family, race. Native place, one's country or home (confer patria).

duomo (Italian)

A cathedral. The principal church of a city (not having an episcopal throne).

dôme (French)

(architecture) dome.

dome (English)

(US, slang, colloquial, AAVE) The act of fellatio.. (transitive) To give a domed shape to. (architecture) A structural element resembling the hollow upper half of a sphere; a cupola.. (crystallography) A prism formed by planes parallel to a lateral axis which meet above in a horizontal edge, like the roof of a house; also, one of the planes of such a form.. (obsolete, poetic) A building; a [...]

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