# damnum
## English
### Etymology

From Latin damnum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdæmnəm/

### Noun

damnum (uncountable)
* (law) harm; detriment

#### Related terms

* ad damnum
* ad quod damnum
* damnum absque injuria

#### Related terms

* damnous

### References

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

### Anagrams

* mudman

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* dampnum (Late Latin)

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

damnum n (genitive damnī); second declension
* damage or injury
    Synonyms: vulnus, dētrīmentum, incommoditās, calamitās, pauperiēs, maleficium, iniūria, noxa, plāga, fraus
* (financial) loss, disadvantage
    Synonyms: āmissiō, pauperiēs, dētrīmentum, calamitās
* fine, mulct, penalty
    Synonym: multa

#### Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

#### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “loss”): lucrum

#### Derived terms

* *damnāticum (Vulgar Latin)
* damnō
* indemnis

#### Descendants

* Insular Romance:
** Sardinian: dannu
* Balkano-Romance:
** Romanian: daună
* Italo-Dalmatian:
** Dalmatian: damno, duon
** Istriot: dagno
** Italian: danno
** Sicilian: dannu
** Venetan: dano
* Rhaeto-Romance:
** Friulian: dam
** Romansch: donn
* Gallo-Romance:
** Northern:
*** Franco-Provençal: dan
*** French: dam
** Southern:
*** Catalan: dany
*** Occitan: dam
* Ibero-Romance:
** Asturian: dañu
** Old Galician-Portuguese: dano
*** Galician: dano
*** Portuguese: dano
** Old Spanish: danno
*** Spanish: daño
* Borrowings:
** → Albanian: dëm, dam, dôm — Gheg
** → English: damnum

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “damnum”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 161

### 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’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, 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
* Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “damnum”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 3: D–F, page 10