domestic

Etymology

From Middle French domestique, from Latin domesticus, from domus (“house, home”).

adj

1. Of or relating to the home.
   “Dan’s not as domestic as you," I commented rather nastily. 1994, George Whitmore, “Getting Rid of Robert”, in Violet Quill
2. Of or relating to activities normally associated with the home, wherever they actually occur.
   domestic violence; domestic hot water
3. (of an animal) Kept by someone, for example as a farm animal or a pet.
   It shall be the duty of any owner or person in charge of any domestic animal or animals. 1890, US Bureau of Animal Industry, Annual report v 6/7, 1889/90
4. Internal to a specific country.
   The proportion of international economic flows relative to domestic ones. 1996, Robert O. Keohane, Helen V. Milner, Internationalization and Domestic Politics
   Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month. 2013-08-03, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
5. Tending to stay at home; not outgoing.
   Homosexual men were non-warlike and homosexual women non-domestic, so that their energies sought different outlets from those of ordinary men and women; they became the initiators of new activities. 1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 (of 6)

noun

1. A maid or household servant.
   New standards of cleanliness increased the workload for domestics. 1992, Mary Romero, Maid in the U.S.A.
2. A domestic dispute, whether verbal or violent.
   2005, Bellingham-Whatcom County Commission Against Domestic Violence, Domestic Violence in Whatcom County (read on the Whatcom County website athttps://web.archive.org/web/20060618212243/http://www.co.whatcom.wa.us/boards/dv_whatcom042505.pdf on 20 May 2006) - The number of “verbal domestics” (where law enforcement determines that no assault has occurred and where no arrest is made), decreased significantly.
   Nobody wanted to join the 'Cardigan Squad' – so-called because Child Protection officers were seen as woolly, glorified social workers that mopped up after domestics. 2010, Harry Keeble, Baby X: Britain’s Child Abusers Brought to Justice, page 153