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^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “damnum”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 161
Further reading
“damnum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“damnum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
"damnum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
damnum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
to suffer loss, harm, damage.[2: damnum (opp. lucrum) facere
to do harm to, injure any one: damnum inferre, afferre alicui
to know how to endure calamity: damnum ferre
to make good, repair a loss or injury: damnum or detrimentum sarcire (not reparare)
to balance a loss by anything: damnum compensare cum aliqua re
to make profit out of a thing: lucrum facere (opp. damnum facere) ex aliqua re
(ambiguous) to suffer loss, harm, damage: damno affici
“damnum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
“damnum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin