detrimentum

Latin

Etymology

From dēterō +‎ -mentum.

Noun

dētrīmentum n (genitive dētrīmentī); second declension

1. harm, loss, damage

   Synonyms: damnum, incommodum, clādēs, incommoditās, calamitās, cāsus, perniciēs, exitium, iniūria, īnfortūnium, maleficium, miseria, vulnus, fraus, pauperiēs, āmissiō

   Antonyms: beneficium, favor, usus, profectus, commodum, commoditās

   • Sallustius :

     Senatus decrevit darent operam consules ne quid res publica detrimenti caperet

     The senate ordered that consuls be carefull lest the republic should suffer any harm

2. defeat

   Synonyms: clādēs, calamitās, incommodum, vulnus

   Antonym: victōria

3. detriment
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.44:

     Amicitiam populi Romani sibi ornamento et praesidio, non detrimento esse oportere, atque se hac spe petisse.

     That the friendship of the Roman people ought to prove to him an ornament and a safeguard, not a detriment; and that he sought it with that expectation.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dētrīmentum	dētrīmenta
Genitive	dētrīmentī	dētrīmentōrum
Dative	dētrīmentō	dētrīmentīs
Accusative	dētrīmentum	dētrīmenta
Ablative	dētrīmentō	dētrīmentīs
Vocative	dētrīmentum	dētrīmenta

Descendants

• Catalan: detriment
• English: detriment
• French: détriment
• Galician: detrimento
• Italian: detrimento
• Portuguese: detrimento
• Romanian: detriment
• Spanish: detrimento

References

• “detrimentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “detrimentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• detrimentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to suffer loss, harm, damage: detrimentum capere, accipere, facere
    
  • to make good, repair a loss or injury: damnum or detrimentum sarcire (not reparare)
    
  • let the consuls take measures for the protection of the state: videant or dent operam consules, ne quid res publica detrimenti capiat (Catil. 1. 2. 4)
    
  • with great loss: magno cum detrimento