English

Noun

damnum ‎(uncountable)

1. (law) harm; detriment

Related terms

• damnous

Latin

Alternative forms

• (Late Latin) dampnum

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

1. damage or injury
2. (financial) loss
3. a fine

Inflection

Second declension.

Derived terms

• damnō
• injuria sine damno

Descendants

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)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “damnum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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