Dominica

From Latin Dominica (“Lord's Day [Island], Sunday [Island]”) due to being sighted by Columbus on a Sunday.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌdɒ.mɪ.ˈniː.kə/, /də.ˈmɪ.nɪ.kə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌdɑ.mɪ.ˈniː.kə/, /də.ˈmɪ.nɪ.kə/

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Dominica

1. An island and country in the Caribbean. Official name: Commonwealth of Dominica.

• (countries of North America) country of North America; Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Canada, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, United States of America

• daimonic

Dominica

1. Dominica (an island and country in the Caribbean)

• IPA^(key): (Central) [du.miˈni.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [do.miˈni.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [do.miˈni.ka]

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Dominica f

1. Dominica (an island and country in the Caribbean)

• dominiquès

Dominica

1. Dominica (a country in North America)

From Latin Dominica.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdominikɑ/, [ˈdo̞miˌnikɑ̝]

Dominica

1. Dominica (an island and country in the Caribbean)

• IPA^(key): /doˈmiːnika/

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Dominica n (proper noun, genitive Dominicas or (optionally with an article) Dominica)

1. Dominica (an island and country in the Caribbean)

Dominica f

1. Dominica (an island and country in the Caribbean)

• dinamico, modicani, monadici, nomadici

Ellipsis of diēs Dominica (“Lord’s Day, day of the Lord, Sunday”), used for the island of Dominica since it was sighted by Christopher Columbus on a Sunday.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /doˈmi.ni.ka/, [d̪ɔˈmɪnɪkä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /doˈmi.ni.ka/, [d̪oˈmiːnikä]

Dominica f (genitive Dominicae); first declension

1. (Ecclesiastical Latin) Sunday
   • 1717, Breviarium Sacri Ordinis Cartusiensis [Breviary of the Holy Carthusian Order]‎:

     Excipiuntur Dominicæ contingentes in Festo Exaltationis sanctæ Crucis

     Sundays coincident with the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross are excepted

2. (New Latin) Dominica (an island and country in the Caribbean)

First-declension noun, with locative.

Dominica

1. Dominica (an island and country in the Caribbean)

• dominiker, dominikaner
• dominikisk

Dominica

1. Dominica (an island and country in the Caribbean)

• dominikar
• dominikisk

Dominica f

1. Alternative form of Domínica

• IPA^(key): /domiˈnika/ [d̪o.miˈni.ka]

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• Rhymes: -ika
• Syllabification: Do‧mi‧ni‧ca

Dominica f

1. Dominica (an island and country in the Caribbean)

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Dominica n (genitive Dominicas)

1. Dominica (an island and country in the Caribbean)