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damage
English
Etymology
From Middle English damage, from Old French damage (Modern French dommage), from Vulgar Latin *damnaticum from Classical Latin damnum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?dæm?d?/
- Rhymes: -æm?d?
- Hyphenation: dam?age
Noun
damage (countable and uncountable, plural damages)
- Injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.
- The storm did a lot of damage to the area.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Friendship
- Great errors and absurdities many {{..}}commit for want of a friend to tell them of them, to the great damage both of their fame and fortune.
- (slang) Cost or expense.
- "What's the damage?" he asked the waiter.
Usage notes
Currently it is only used as an uncountable noun, except in the plural. There are few examples of countable (singular) use.
Related terms
- damn
- indemnity
Translations
Verb
damage (third-person singular simple present damages, present participle damaging, simple past and past participle damaged)
- (transitive) To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.
- Be careful not to damage any of the fragile items while unpacking them.
- Cold temperatures, heavy rain, falling rocks, strong winds and glacier movement can damage the equipment.
- 1774, Edward Long, The History of Jamaica. Or, General Survey of the Antient and Modern State of that Island, volume 2, book 2, chapter 7, 5:
- The building was erected in two years, at the parochial expence, on the foundation of the former one, which was irreparably damaged by the hurricane of Augu?t, 1712.
- (transitive, obsolete) To undergo damage.
Derived terms
- undamaged
Translations
References
Middle English
Alternative forms
- dampnage, dammage, domage, damege
Etymology
From Old French damage, from Vulgar Latin *damnaticum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dam?a?d?(?)/, /d?m?a?d?(?)/, /?damad?(?)/
Noun
damage (plural damages)
- damage, harm, injury
- loss (of reputation, etc.)
- (rare) disability, weakness
- (law, often in the plural) damages (compensation for loss)
Related terms
- damagen
Descendants
- English: damage
- Scots: dammish
References
- “dam??e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Old French
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *damnaticum from Classical Latin damnum. Cognate with Old Occitan damnatge.
Noun
damage m (oblique plural damages, nominative singular damages, nominative plural damage)
- damage
- injury, hurt, insult
Related terms
- damagier
Descendants
- French: dommage
- Norman: dommage
- ? Middle English: damage, dampnage, dammage, domage, damege
- English: damage
- Scots: dammish
- ? Irish: damáiste
- ? Sicilian: damaggiu
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frosh
English
Pronunciation
- (US)
- (General American) IPA(key): /f???/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /f???/
Etymology 1
From Middle English frossh, frosch, from Old English fros? (“frog”), from Proto-Germanic *fruskaz (“frog”), from Proto-Indo-European *prew- (“to jump, hop”). Cognate with West Frisian froask (“frog”), Dutch vors (“frog”), German Frosch (“frog”), Norwegian frosk (“frog”), Icelandic froskur (“frog”). See also frosk, frog.
Noun
frosh (plural froshes)
- (now dialectal) A frog.
- 1565 (1593), Golding, Ovid's Met. xv. (1593) pg. 356:
- The mud hath in it certaine seed whereof greene froshes rise.
- 1565 (1593), Golding, Ovid's Met. xv. (1593) pg. 356:
Translations
Etymology 2
Blend of freshman +? sophomore.
Noun
frosh (plural froshes or frosh)
- (colloquial) A first-year student, at certain universities, and a first-or-second-year student at other universities.
- That frosh is really getting on my nerves!
Synonyms
- underclassman
- newbie
- fresher (UK)
Derived terms
- prefrosh
Translations
Verb
frosh (third-person singular simple present froshes, present participle froshing, simple past and past participle froshed)
- (transitive, slang) To initiate academic freshmen, notably in a testing way.
- This campus does not tolerate froshing in any form.
- (transitive, slang) To damage through incompetence.
- Trying to open my car door with a coat hanger, I froshed the mechanism.
Synonyms
- (initiate): haze
Derived terms
- froshing
Translations
Middle English
Noun
frosh
- Alternative form of frossh
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