domina

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domina

/ˈdɒmɪnə/ UK

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From Latin domina (“mistress”). Doublet of dame and donna.

noun dominas · dominae

The head of a nunnery. Each of the nuns was heard in her turn, while the others waited with the domina in the adjoining vestry.
A dominatrix. >Couple of articles about professional dommes, […] It's written "domina". Period. Even in English. If you can't stand Latin endings, I'll grudgingly concede the androgynous abbreviation "dom". But a pseudo-French bastard "domme" really has no right to live, not even on a terminal screen.
An ancient Roman lady. A precious article is the paint with which the Roman domina was beautified; it was well worthy of the case of ivory and rock-crystal in which it was preserved.

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@misc{domina_2026,
  title = {domina},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/domina},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}