Etymology

Borrowed from LatinCategory:English terms borrowed from Latin#DAMNUMCategory:English terms derived from Latin#DAMNUM damnum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdæmnəm/Category:English 2-syllable words#DAMNUMCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#DAMNUM

Noun

damnum (uncountable)Category:English lemmas#DAMNUMCategory:English nouns#DAMNUMCategory:English uncountable nouns#DAMNUMCategory:English uncountable nouns#DAMNUMCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#DAMNUMCategory:Pages with entries#DAMNUMCategory:Pages with 2 entries#DAMNUM

1. (lawCategory:en:Law#DAMNUM) harm; detriment

References

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

Anagrams

• mudman

Alternative forms

• dampnum (Late Latin)

Etymology

From Proto-ItalicCategory:Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic#DAMNUMCategory:Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic#DAMNUM *dapnom, from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:Latin terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European#DAMNUMCategory:Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#DAMNUM *dh₂pnóm (“expense, investment”), from the root *deh₂p- (“to sacrifice, lose”),^[1] whence also daps (“sacrificial meal, feast”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈdam.nũː]Category:Latin 2-syllable words#DAMNUMCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#DAMNUM
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈdam.num]Category:Latin 2-syllable words#DAMNUMCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#DAMNUM

Noun

damnum n (genitive damnī)Category:Latin lemmas#DAMNUMCategory:Latin nouns#DAMNUMCategory:Latin second declension nouns#DAMNUMCategory:Latin neuter nouns in the second declension#DAMNUMCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#DAMNUMCategory:Latin neuter nouns#DAMNUMCategory:Pages with entries#DAMNUMCategory:Pages with 2 entries#DAMNUM; 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

References

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, 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
    

  Category:Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook
• “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 (in German), volume 3: D–F, page 10