Dom

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Dom /dɒm/

▶noun

• 1 a title prefixed to the names of some Roman Catholic dignitaries and Benedictine and Carthusian monks.

• 2 Portuguese form of don1 (sense 2)).

– origin from L. dominus ‘master’.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
-dom

▶suffix forming nouns.

• 1 denoting a state or condition: freedom.

• 2 denoting rank or status: earldom.

• 3 denoting a domain: fiefdom.

• 4 denoting a class of people or attitudes associated with them: officialdom.

– origin OE -dōm, orig. meaning ‘decree, judgement’.