{{Short description|Scottish schoolmaster}} {{Other uses}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Dominie''' (Wiktionary definition) is a Scots language and Scottish English term for a Scottish schoolmaster usually of the Church of Scotland and also a term used in the US<ref>{{cite book |first = Nicoline |last = van der Sijs |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=qIsDdUSYJMIC&pg=PA219 |title = Cookies, Coleslaw, and Stoops: The Influence of Dutch on the North American Languages |publisher = Amsterdam University Press |year = 2009 |page = 219|isbn = 9789089641243 }}</ref> for a minister or pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church.
==Origin== It comes from the Latin ''domine'' (vocative case of ''Dominus'' 'Lord, Master'). When the Church of Scotland began to introduce universal provision of education in Scotland after it became established as a national church in 1560, its aim was to have a university-educated schoolmaster in every parish. The minister sometimes served as the dominie. Over time this came to be used as a term for a minister, schoolmaster or university student.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.scotslanguage.com/articles/words/615 |title = dominie n. a schoolmaster, teacher |publisher = Scots Language Centre |accessdate = 24 June 2013 |url-status = dead |archiveurl = https://archive.today/20130624231007/http://www.scotslanguage.com/articles/words/615 |archivedate = 24 June 2013 }}</ref><ref name=dominie>{{OED|dominie}}</ref>
In the United States and in South Africa the same word is used to describe a pastor in the Dutch Reformed Church.<ref name=dominie/>
==See also== * Dominee
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Category:Church of Scotland Category:Education in Scotland Category:Scots language Category:Scottish English Category:Titles Category:Education and training occupations
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