-dom

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.

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /-dəm/

-dom

1. Forming nouns denoting the condition or state of the suffixed word.

   boredom, freedom, martyrdom, stardom

2. Forming nouns denoting the domain or jurisdiction of the suffixed word.

   Christendom, fiefdom, kingdom, Saxondom

3. Forming nouns — usually nonce words — denoting the set of all examples of the suffixed word.

   catdom, dogdom, furrydom, gothdom, wingdom

   • 2011 March 19, Caitlin Moran, The Times:

     It is only the English language that has let the cabbage down – giving it, quite frankly, the ugliest name in all of veg-dom.

   • 1995, Isabel Fonseca, Bury Me Standing, Vintage, published 2007, page 74:

     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.

4. (fandom slang) Forming nouns denoting the fandom of the suffixed word.

   Potterdom, stfdom

• MOD, MoD, ODM, mod, mod.

From Old Norse -dómr.

-dom

1. Indicates a condition, situation or period.
2. Indicates a religion, teaching or similar.

• “-dom” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Middle Dutch -dom, from Old Dutch -duom, from Proto-West Germanic *-dōm, from Proto-Germanic *-dōmaz.

Cognate with English -dom, German -tum.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /dɔm/

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-dom m

1. belonging to a domain or territory (e.g. groothertogdom (“grandduchy”); this sense is no longer productive)
2. quality or condition of the adjective stem (e.g. eigendom less productive than suffixes like -heid)

• -doom

From Middle Low German -dôm, from Old Saxon -dōm. Cognate with English -dom, Dutch -dom, German -tum.

• IPA^(key): /doːm/, /doʊ̯m/, /dɔʊ̯m/

-dom

1. belonging to a domain or territory (e.g. Hartogdom (“duchy”); this sense is no longer productive)
2. quality or condition of the adjective stem (e.g. Riekdom less productive than suffixes like -heit)

• -dam, -dame, -dome, -don, -doom, -dum

Inherited from Old English -dōm, from Proto-West Germanic *-dōm, from Proto-Germanic *-dōmaz.

• IPA^(key): /-doːm/
• (reduced) IPA^(key): /-dum/, /-dam/^[1]

-dom

1. Forming nouns denoting a state, condition, or office; -dom.^[2]
2. Forming nouns denoting a condition or quality; -dom.

• English: -dom
• Scots: -dom

From Old Norse -dómr.

-dom

1. Suffix used to form nouns out of adjectives, meaning the quality, property or condition of the adjective.

• “-dom” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse -dómr.

-dom

1. Suffix used to form nouns out of adjectives, meaning the quality, property or condition of the adjective.

• “-dom” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-West Germanic *-dōm, from Proto-Germanic *-dōmaz.

• IPA^(key): /doːm/

-dōm m

1. used to derive abstract nouns: -dom

   ‎cristen (“Christian”) + ‎-dom → ‎cristendōm (“Christianity”)

   ‎ealdor (“elder”) + ‎-dom → ‎ealdordōm (“authority”)

   ‎frēo (“free”) + ‎-dom → ‎frēodōm (“freedom”)

   ‎hǣþen (“pagan”) + ‎-dom → ‎hǣþendōm (“paganism”)

• Middle English: -dom, -dam, -dame, -dome, -don, -doom, -dum
  • English: -dom
  • Scots: -dom

From dōm (“state, condition, authority, jurisdiction”), from Proto-West Germanic *-dōm.

-dōm

1. (belonging to a) domain or jurisdiction
2. condition or quality

• Middle Low German: -dôm
  • Low German: -dom

From Old Norse -dómr.

-dom c

1. -hood, -ledge, -ness; making a noun (representing a state) from an adjective or noun

   ‎rik (“rich”) + ‎-dom → ‎rikedom (“wealth, fortune”)

   ‎ung (“young”) + ‎-dom → ‎ungdom (“youth”)

   ‎barn (“child”) + ‎-dom → ‎barndom (“childhood”)

• These nouns don't double the m in definite or plural forms, e.g. rikedomen, ungdomar. This is the same for the noun dom (“judgement, verdict”).

• -döme

• mod