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Latin
Etymology
From dēterō + -mentum.
Noun
dētrīmentum n (genitive dētrīmentī); second declension
- harm, loss, damage
- Synonyms: damnum, incommodum, clādēs, incommoditās, calamitās, cāsus, perniciēs, exitium, iniūria, īnfortūnium, maleficium, miseria, vulnus, fraus, pauperiēs, āmissiō
- Antonyms: beneficium, favor, usus, profectus, commodum, commoditās
Sallustius :
- Senatus decrevit darent operam consules ne quid res publica detrimenti caperet
- The senate ordered that consuls be carefull lest the republic should suffer any harm
- defeat
- Synonyms: clādēs, calamitās, incommodum, vulnus
- Antonym: victōria
- detriment
c. 52 BCE,
Julius Caesar,
Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.44:
- Amicitiam populi Romani sibi ornamento et praesidio, non detrimento esse oportere, atque se hac spe petisse.
- That the friendship of the Roman people ought to prove to him an ornament and a safeguard, not a detriment; and that he sought it with that expectation.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Descendants
References
- “detrimentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “detrimentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- detrimentum 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: detrimentum capere, accipere, facere
- to make good, repair a loss or injury: damnum or detrimentum sarcire (not reparare)
- let the consuls take measures for the protection of the state: videant or dent operam consules, ne quid res publica detrimenti capiat (Catil. 1. 2. 4)
- with great loss: magno cum detrimento