duomo

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Italian duomo. Doublet of dome.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈdwəʊməʊ/, /duːˈəʊməʊ/
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Rhymes: -əʊməʊ

Noun

duomo (plural duomos or duomi)

A cathedral, especially one in Italy.
- 1855, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the page number(s))”, in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
  
  Of tower or duomo, sunny sweet.
- 1914, E. V. Lucas, A Wanderer in Venice:
  There was no doubt as to the direction, with the campanile of the duomo as a beacon.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for duomo in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Italian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈdwɔ.mo/
Rhymes: -ɔmo
Hyphenation: duò‧mo

Etymology 1

Inherited as a shortening of Latin domus ecclēsiae (“meeting-house, house of the assembly”, a calque of Ancient Greek οἶκος τῆς ἐκκλησίας (oîkos tês ekklēsías), designating a private house placed at the disposal of the Christian community) and later domus Dominī (“house of our Lord”) or Deī (“of God”); from Proto-Italic *domos, from Proto-Indo-European *dṓm, derived from the root *dem- (“to build”).