dominical

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• Received-Pronunciation: /dəˈmɪnɪk(ə)l/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /dəʊ-/
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• General-American: /dəˈmɪnək(ə)l/
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Inherited from Middle English dominical (“(adjective) of or pertaining to the Lord’s day or Sunday; (noun) a book containing the liturgy for Sunday (?)”), borrowed from Medieval Latin dominicālis (“of or pertaining to Sunday, dominical”), from Latin dominicus (“of or belonging to a lord or master; (Ecclesiastical Latin) God’s, the Lord’s”) (compare diēs Dominicus (“the day of the Lord, Sunday”)) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship). Dominicus is derived from dominus (“lord, master”) (used in Latin versions of the Bible to translate titles of the God of the Hebrew Tanakh and Greek New Testament; probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dem- (“to arrange, put together; to build (up)”)) + -icus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). Adjective senses 3.1 (“of printed text: in a large size”) and 3.2 (“red, ruddy”) refer to the practice of printing dominical letters in a large size, or in red. Cognates * French dominical

30 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Armenian: տերունի (teruni) — of or pertaining to Jesus Christ as Lord
• Old Armenian: տէրունի (tēruni) — of or pertaining to Jesus Christ as Lord
• Finnish: Herran — of or pertaining to Jesus Christ as Lord
• Ancient Greek: κῡριακή (kūriakḗ) — of or pertaining to Jesus Christ as Lord
• Macedonian: Го́сподов (Góspodov) — of or pertaining to Jesus Christ as Lord
• Macedonian: го́сподов (góspodov) — of or pertaining to Jesus Christ as Lord
• Bulgarian: неделен (nedelen) — of or pertaining to Sunday
• Catalan: dominical — of or pertaining to Sunday
• Chinese Mandarin: 主日 (zhǔrì) — of or pertaining to Sunday
• Czech: nedělní — of or pertaining to Sunday
• Dutch: zondags — of or pertaining to Sunday
• Finnish: pyhä- — of or pertaining to Sunday
• French: dominical — of or pertaining to Sunday
• Galician: dominical — of or pertaining to Sunday
• German: sonntäglich — of or pertaining to Sunday
• Greek: κυριακή (kyriakí) — of or pertaining to Sunday
• Ilocano: dominikal — of or pertaining to Sunday
• Indonesian: dominis — of or pertaining to Sunday
• Italian: dominicale — of or pertaining to Sunday
• Korean: 주일 (ju'il) — of or pertaining to Sunday
• Macedonian: не́делен (nédelen) — of or pertaining to Sunday
• Polish: niedzielne — of or pertaining to Sunday
• Portuguese: dominical — of or pertaining to Sunday
• Romanian: dominical — of or pertaining to Sunday
• Slovak: nedeľné — of or pertaining to Sunday
• Slovene: nedéljska — of or pertaining to Sunday
• Spanish: dominical — of or pertaining to Sunday
• Finnish: sunnuntaikirjain- — of or pertaining to the ancient system of dominical letters
• Finnish: sunnuntaina lepopäivää viettävä — person who keeps Sunday as a day of rest, but does not regard it as representing the Sabbath of the Old Testament of the Bible
• Finnish: maasta kirkolle maksettava korvaus — payment legally due from a parishioner to the parish, because the parishioner’s house was built on land, ownership of which would have originally obliged the landowner to pay a tithe to the parish