damnum

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin damnum.

Noun

damnum (uncountable)

(law) harm; detriment

Related terms

damnous

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for damnum in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Latin

Alternative forms

dampnum (Late Latin)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *dh₂pnom (“expense, investment”), from the root *deh₂p-, whence also daps (“sacrificial meal, feast”).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈdam.num/, [ˈdam.nũ]

Noun

damnum n (genitive damnī); second declension

damage or injury
(financial) loss
a fine

Inflection

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	damnum	damna
Genitive	damnī	damnōrum
Dative	damnō	damnīs
Accusative	damnum	damna
Ablative	damnō	damnīs
Vocative	damnum	damna

Antonyms

(loss): lucrum

Derived terms

Descendants

Dalmatian: damno, duon
Eastern Romance:
- Romanian: daună
Istriot: dagno
Italian: danno
Old Leonese:
- Asturian: dañu
Old Occitan:
- Catalan: dany
Old Portuguese:
- Galician: dano
- Portuguese: dano
Old Spanish:
- Spanish: daño
Rhaeto-Romance:
- Friulian: dam
- Romansch: donn
Sardinian: dànnu
Venetian: dano
→ Albanian: dëm, dam, dôm
→ English: damnum
→ French: dam
⇒ Vulgar Latin: *damnaticum
- Franco-Provençal: damâjo
- Old French: damage
  - French: dommage
  - Norman: dommage
  - → English: damage
  - → Irish: damáiste
  - → Sicilian: damaggiu
- Old Occitan: damnatge
  - Catalan: damnatge (archaic)
  - Occitan: damatge, damnatge
  - → Italian: dannaggio (archaic)
- Rhaeto-Romance:
  - Friulian: daneç

References

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, 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
De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 161

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