damnum

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin damnum.

Noun

damnum (uncountable)

1. (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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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 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
2. (financial) loss
3. a fine

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

• damnō
• indemnis
• injuria sine damno

Descendants

• Dalmatian: damno, duon
• Eastern Romance:
  • Romanian: daună
• Istriot: dagno
• Italian: danno
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: dañu
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: dany
• Old Galician-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
  • Old Catalan: damnatge
  • Franco-Provençal: damâjo, damôzhou, damôzou, damôezhou, doumazhou, damôze, damâdzo, domâdzo, damajo (Dauphinois, archaic)
  • Old French: damage (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Occitan: damnatge
    • Occitan: damatge, damnatge
    • → Italian: dannaggio (archaic)

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 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^[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
• 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