damnum

English

Etymology

From Latin damnum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdæmnəm/

Noun

damnum (uncountable)

1. (law) harm; detriment

Related terms

• ad damnum
• ad quod damnum
• damnum absque injuria

Related terms

• damnous

References

• “damnum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• mudman

Latin

Alternative forms

• dampnum (Late Latin)

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *dapnom, from Proto-Indo-European *dh₂pnóm (“expense, investment”), from the root *deh₂p- (“to sacrifice, lose”),^[1] whence also daps (“sacrificial meal, feast”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈdam.num/, [ˈd̪ämnʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈdam.num/, [ˈd̪ämnum]

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

• *damnāticum (Vulgar Latin)
• damnō
• indemnis

Descendants

• Dalmatian:
  • damno, duon
• Balkan Romance:
  • Romanian: daună
  • → Albanian: dëm, dam, dôm
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: danno
  • Sicilian: dannu
• North Italian:
  • Friulian: dam
  • Istriot: dagno
  • Romansch: donn
  • Venetan: dano
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: dan
  • French: dam
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Catalan: dany
  • Occitan: dam
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: dañu
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: dano
    • Galician: dano
    • Portuguese: dano
  • Old Spanish: danno
    • Spanish: daño
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: dannu
• Borrowings:
  • → English: damnum

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, volumes 3: D–F, page 10