Etymograph

English

Lord

Lord comes from Latin Dominus.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEDominus
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1582Lord

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEDominus
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1582Lord

Earliest quotation: 1582, Douay–Rheims Bible: “Therfore I doe you to vnderſtand that no má…”

The story

In reference to the God of the Jewish Tanakh and Christian Bible, originally a translation (attested from the late Old English form hlāford) of the Vulgate Latin Dominus (‘master of a house; lord’), translating the New Testament and the Septuagint's Ancient Greek ὁ κύριος or Κύριος (ó kýrios, "the supreme one; Lord, Kyrios"), both in reference to Hebrew אֲדֹנָי (ʾdny, "my lord; my Lord, Adonai") from אדון (ʾdwn, "lord, patron; Lord") + י- (-y, "my"), cognate with Phoenician 𐤀𐤃𐤍 (ʾdn, "lord; Lord, Adon"). Adonai appears in the Tanakh both directly and as a euphemism read aloud during occurrences of the Tetragrammaton יהוה (YHWH, "I Am that I Am; Jehovah").

Every English word from Latin Dominus

Today it means

name The Abrahamic deity of the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic faiths.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Latin Dominus / Lord

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