Italian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Medieval Latin nocumentum.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /no.kuˈmen.to/
  • Rhymes: -ento
  • Hyphenation: no‧cu‧mén‧to

Noun

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nocumento m (plural nocumenti)

  1. (literary) harm, injury, damage
    Synonyms: danno, detrimento, svantaggio
    Antonyms: beneficio, giovamento, profitto, vantaggio
    • 1913, Luigi Pirandello, I vecchi e i giovani [The Young and the Old]‎[1], published 2013:
      Studiare, studiava anche troppo, con nocumento finanche della sua salute
      As for studying, he even studied too much, with harm to his own health, even
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Latin

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Noun

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nocumentō n

  1. dative/ablative singular of nocumentum