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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 [...]