damnum

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English

Etymology

From Latin damnum.

Pronunciation

Noun

damnum (uncountable)

  1. (law) harm; detriment

References

Anagrams

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *dapnom, from Proto-Indo-European *dh₂pnóm (expense, investment), from the root *deh₂p- (to sacrifice, lose), whence also daps (sacrificial meal, feast).

Pronunciation

Noun

damnum n (genitive damnī); second declension

  1. damage or injury
    Synonyms: vulnus, dētrīmentum, incommoditās, calamitās, pauperiēs, maleficium, iniūria, noxa, plāga, fraus
  2. (financial) loss, disadvantage
    Synonyms: āmissiō, pauperiēs, dētrīmentum, calamitās
  3. fine, mulct, penalty
    Synonym: multa

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative damnum damna
genitive damnī damnōrum
dative damnō damnīs
accusative damnum damna
ablative damnō damnīs
vocative damnum damna

Antonyms

  • (antonym(s) of loss): lucrum

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Insular Romance:
    • Sardinian: dannu
  • Balkano-Romance:
  • Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Northern:
      • Franco-Provençal: dan
      • French: dam
    • Southern:
  • Ibero-Romance:
  • Borrowings:

References

  1. ^ 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
  • Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “damnum”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 3: D–F, page 10