"damnum" meaning in Latin

See damnum in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: [ˈdam.nũː] [Classical-Latin], [ˈdam.num] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *deh₂- Proto-Indo-European *deh₂p-der. Proto-Indo-European *dh₂pnóm Proto-Italic *dapnom Latin damnum From Proto-Italic *dapnom, from Proto-Indo-European *dh₂pnóm (“expense, investment”), from the root *deh₂p- (“to sacrifice, to lose”), whence also daps (“sacrificial meal, feast”). Etymology templates: {{ety|la|:inh|itc-pro:*dapnom<ety:inh<ine-pro:<alt:*dh₂pnóm><t:expense, investment><ety:der<*deh₂p-<t:to sacrife, to lose>>>>>|tree=1}} Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *deh₂- Proto-Indo-European *deh₂p-der. Proto-Indo-European *dh₂pnóm Proto-Italic *dapnom Latin damnum [Appendix:Glossary#derived_terms|Derived]] from", "terms" : [ { "gloss" : "to sacrife, to lose", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "share", "children" : [ ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*deh₂-", "gloss" : "to share, to divide", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "keyword" : "from" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*deh₂p-", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword" : "derived" } ], "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Italic", "term" : "*dapnom", "status" : "inline", "lang" : "itc-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "damnum", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "la" }" data-lang="la" data-title="damnum">, {{inh|la|itc-pro|*dapnom}} Proto-Italic *dapnom, {{inh|la|ine-pro||*dh₂pnóm|t=expense, investment}} Proto-Indo-European *dh₂pnóm (“expense, investment”) Head templates: {{la-noun|damnum<2>}} damnum n (genitive damnī); second declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|damnum<2>}} Forms: damnī [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], damnum [nominative, singular], damna [nominative, plural], damnī [genitive, singular], damnōrum [genitive, plural], damnō [dative, singular], damnīs [dative, plural], damnum [accusative, singular], damna [accusative, plural], damnō [ablative, singular], damnīs [ablative, plural], damnum [singular, vocative], damna [plural, vocative], dampnum [alternative, Late-Latin]
  1. damage, injury Tags: declension-2, neuter Synonyms: vulnus, dētrīmentum, incommoditās, calamitās, pauperiēs, maleficium, iniūria, noxa, plāga, fraus
    Sense id: en-damnum-la-noun-wmwbuvCT Categories (other): Latin entries with etymology trees, Latin entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Latin entries with etymology trees: 55 26 19 Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 55 35 9
  2. (financial) loss, disadvantage Tags: declension-2, neuter Synonyms: āmissiō, pauperiēs, dētrīmentum, calamitās
    Sense id: en-damnum-la-noun-qWeM0Tr7 Categories (other): Latin neuter nouns in the second declension, Finance Disambiguation of Latin neuter nouns in the second declension: 30 45 25 Disambiguation of Finance: 7 82 11 Topics: business, finance, financial
  3. fine, mulct, penalty Tags: declension-2, neuter Synonyms: multa
    Sense id: en-damnum-la-noun-CWAcFK42
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: *damnāticum [Latin, vulgar], damnō, indemnis

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Latin dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-05-12 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-05-01 using wiktextract (f3d3fdb and ae80fde). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.