Jube domne benedicere

[henrikhankhagnell]

what's the difference between "Jube domne benedicere" and "Jube domine benedicere"?

 

[Eternally Optimistic]

what's the difference between "Jube domne benedicere" and "Jube domine benedicere"?

Okay sorry for that last reply.

one Domne refers to a person, Domine to the Lord...I think that is the difference.

 

[Gwendolyn]

'Domine' is a word ("Lord") and 'domne' isn't.

 

[FullyMT]

It is either a typo or they were trying to fit it the word into a syllable pattern within a song/poem.

 

[Eternally Optimistic]

I read elsewhere that it is like how in England there is lord such and such, i.e. lord stanley, and The Lord; or in Spanish there is senor for a man but El Senor is Jesus. That domne is comparable to senor or sir, while Domine is obviously Lord.

 

[MoonlessNight]

From my meager knowledge of Latin and 15 minutes of scouring the internet, it appears that the story is something like this:

Dominus is the (Roman) Latin for "lord" and has much the same meanings as the word lord does in English.

Sometime in the development of Latin as the language of the Church, rather than the language of a living empire, the word Dominus became reserved for Christ alone. However, the word "lord" refers to many other things other than our Lord in heaven, so the word "domnus" was used to fill the void (see for example here).

In the phrase "Jube Domine benedicere" the word Dominus is in the vocative form, since Christ is being directly referenced. Thus the ending changes to an e. The same thing happens with domnus/domne.

So the difference seems to be whether you are asking a blessing from God or a blessing from a priest.