Noun
damnum n (genitive damnī); second declension
- damage or injury
- Synonyms: vulnus, dētrīmentum, incommoditās, calamitās, pauperiēs, maleficium, iniūria, noxa, plāga, fraus
- (financial) loss, disadvantage
- Synonyms: āmissiō, pauperiēs, dētrīmentum, calamitās
- fine, mulct, penalty
- Synonym: multa
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of “loss”): lucrum
Descendants
- Dalmatian:
- Balkan Romance:
- Italo-Romance:
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: dan
- French: dam
- Occitano-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Insular Romance:
- Borrowings:
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