DOME

I. noun Etymology: French, Italian, & Latin; French dôme ~, cathedral, from Italian duomo cathedral, from Medieval Latin domus church, from Latin, house; akin to Greek domos house, Sanskrit dam Date: 1513 a stately building ; mansion , a large hemispherical roof or ceiling, a natural formation or structure that resembles the ~ or cupola of a building, a form of crystal composed of planes parallel to a lateral axis that meet above in a horizontal edge like a roof, an upward fold in rock whose sides dip uniformly in all directions, a roofed sports stadium, a person's head, domal adjective II. verb (~d; doming) Date: 1876 transitive verb to cover with a ~, to form into a ~, intransitive verb to swell upward or outward like a ~