different between damnous vs damnum

English

Adjective

damnous (comparative more damnous, superlative most damnous)

1. (law) Causing harm or detriment.

Related terms

• damnum

Anagrams

• osmunda

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin damnum.

Noun

damnum (uncountable)

1. (law) harm; detriment

Related terms

• damnous

Anagrams

• mudman

Latin

Alternative forms

• dampnum (Late Latin)

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *dapnom, from Proto-Indo-European *dh?pnóm (“expense, investment”), from the root *deh?p-, whence also daps (“sacrificial meal, feast”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?dam.num/, [?d?ämn???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?dam.num/, [?d??mnum]

Noun

damnum n (genitive damn?); second declension

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

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Antonyms

• (loss): lucrum

Derived terms

• damn?
• indemnis
• injuria sine damno

Descendants

• Dalmatian: damno, duon
• Eastern Romance:
  • Romanian: daun?
• Istriot: dagno
• Italian: danno
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: dañu
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: dany
• Old Portuguese:
  • Galician: dano
  • Portuguese: dano
• Old Spanish:
  • Spanish: daño
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: dam
  • Romansch: donn
• Sardinian: dannu
• Sicilian: dannu
• Venetian: dano
• ? Albanian: dëm, dam, dôm
• ? English: damnum
• ? French: dam
• ? Vulgar Latin: *damnaticum
  • Franco-Provençal: damâjo
  • Old French: damage
    • French: dommage
    • Norman: dommage
    • ? Middle English: damage, dampnage, dammage, domage, damege
      • English: damage
      • Scots: dammish
    • ? Irish: damáiste
    • ? Sicilian: damaggiu
  • Old Occitan: damnatge
    • Catalan: damnatge (archaic)
    • Occitan: damatge, damnatge
    • ? Italian: dannaggio (archaic)
  • Rhaeto-Romance:
    • Friulian: daneç

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)
• damnum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• 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, ?ISBN, page 161