Domus Diaspora: Difference between revisions

"Domus, -ūs" is a Latin word meaning "house" or "household";<ref>'''The Bantam New College Latin and English Dictionary, 3rd ed.''' ''Pg.154''</ref> while "Diaspora", from Greek, refers to "the movement, migration, or scattering of a people away from an established or ancestral homeland".<ref>[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/diaspora '''Merriam-Webster.com''' ''diaspora'']</ref> This is therefore an appropriate name for humanity's period of interstellar travel, as masses of people left humanity's homeland in the Sol system, just as many Palestinians were forced out of Palestine or Irish out of Ireland in other well-known diaspora.