-dom
suffixUK /-dɒm/ · US /-dɑm/
Etymology From dom, shortening of variously domination, dominance, or dominator.
-dom
suffixUS, UK /-dəm/
Etymology
From Middle English -dom, from Old English -dōm (“-dom: state, condition, power, authority, property, right, office, quality”, suffix), from Proto-West Germanic *-dōm, from Proto-Germanic *-dōmaz. Cognate with Scots -dom (“-dom”), North Frisian -dom (“-dom”), West Frisian -dom (“-dom”), Dutch -dom (“-dom”), Low German -dom (“-dom”), German -tum (“-dom”), Danish -dom (“-dom”) -dømme (“-dom”), Swedish -dom (“-dom”) -döme (“-dom”), Norwegian -dom (“-dom”), Icelandic -dómur (“-dom”), Norwegian Bokmål -dømme, Norwegian Nynorsk -døme. Same as Old English dōm (“doom, judgment, sentence, condemnation, ordeal, judicial sentence, decree, ordinance, law, custom; justice, equity; direction, ruling, governing, command; might, power, supremacy, majesty, glory, magnificence, splendor, reputation, honor, praise, dignity, authority; state, condition”). No relation to English domain or dominion. More at doom.
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Morpheme Forms nouns denoting the condition or state of the root word.
- boredom, freedom, martyrdom, stardom
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Morpheme Forms nouns denoting the domain or jurisdiction of the root word.
- Christendom, fiefdom, Hindudom, Islamdom, kingdom, Saxondom
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Morpheme Forms nouns — usually nonce words — denoting the set of all examples of the suffixed word.
- catdom, dogdom, furrydom, gothdom, wingdom
- It is only the English language that has let the cabbage down – giving it, quite frankly, the ugliest name in all of veg-dom.2011 March 19, Caitlin Moran, The Times:
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- there always seemed to be one outrageous beauty: an angel who would have been forced into indentured topmodeldom had she been found on a Paris bus; or a wavy-lipped, chisel-chinned, almond-eyed boy-warrior out of the Iliad, as beautiful as humans come.1995, Isabel Fonseca, Bury Me Standing, Vintage, published 2007, page 74:
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Lifestyle Morpheme, Slang Forms nouns denoting the fandom of the suffixed word.
- Potterdom, stfdom
- Derived terms
38 terms
apedom, birddom, boredom, crocodiledom, fishdom, freedom, frogdom, halidom, heirdom, mammaldom, martyrdom, muscledom, reptiledom, saintdom, selfdom, sharkdom, stardom, whoredom, wisdom, Caesardom, Christendom, computerdom, dukedom, earldom, fandom, fiefdom, filmdom, gaydom, Hindudom, Islamdom, kingdom, moviedom, planetdom, popedom, princedom, Saxondom, sheikdom, tsardom