dôme

• IPA^(key): /dom/

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Inherited from Middle French dosme, from (Old Provençal) Old Occitan doma, borrowed from Late Latin dōma (“roof, housetop”), from Koine Greek δῶμα (dôma, “roof, housetop”) previously meaning "house".

dôme m (plural dômes)

1. (architecture) dome

Inherited from Middle French domme, dome, borrowed from Italian duomo, from Latin domus (ecclesiae) (literally “house (of the church)”), a calque of Ancient Greek οἶκος τῆς ἐκκλησίας (oîkos tês ekklēsías).

dôme m (plural dômes)

1. cathedral of a town or city, especially in Italy or Germany

• “dôme”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• démo, mode