damnum

From Latin damnum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdæmnəm/

damnum (uncountable)

1. (law) harm; detriment

• ad damnum
• ad quod damnum
• damnum absque injuria

• damnous

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

• mudman

• dampnum (Late Latin)

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

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

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

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• (antonym(s) of “loss”): lucrum

• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 161
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “damnum”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 3: D–F, page 10

• “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)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934) “damnum”, in Dictionnaire illustré latin-français [Illustrated Latin-French Dictionary] (in French), Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], 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