dominus ī, m 2 DOM-, a master, possessor, ruler, lord, proprietor, owner: aedium, T.: servos, Quoi dominus curaest, T.: nec imperante domino: fugitivi ab dominis: Contemptae rei, H.: bonus adsiduusque, householder.

—A master, lord, ruler, commander, chief, proprietor, owner, despot, tyrant: condicio omnium gentium domini: summi domini numen: populi, quem Graeci tyrannum vocant: dominum Aenean in regna recepit, V.

— Fig.: gravissimi domini, terror ac metus: rei futurus, who must decide: nec prosunt domino artes, O.: Urget non lenis, i. e. passion, H.: vitae necisque, arbiter, L.

—The master of a feast, entertainer, host, C.: dominorum invitatio, L.

—The master of a public show, C.

—A title of the emperor, master, Ph.