damnosus Latin · revision 9495

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=ine-pro *dh₂p-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [damˈnoː.sʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [damˈnɔː.s̬us]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''damnōsus''' (feminine damnōsa, neuter damnōsum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[damnum]] “loss, damage” with the suffix [[-ōsus]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces ⟨damnum⟩ to [[itc-pro|*dapno-]], from [[ine-pro|*dh₂p-no-|t=expense, investment]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citations are from Plautus.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant causing financial loss, ruinous, as in Plautus, and harmful, destructive in general; of persons, wasting their own property, prodigal, spendthrift, as in Plautus.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant harmful, mistaken.^(Stelten 1995) British Medieval Latin used it for hurtful, detrimental, and in theology leading to damnation.^(DMLBS) It survives in Italian ''dannoso'' and Spanish ''dañoso'', and English borrowed it as the rare ''damnous''.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * before 1180 – a British document uses it of a harmful lawsuit.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Causing loss, ruinous, harmful.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # [[m|en|prodigal|alt=Prodigal]], spendthrift.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(theology)'' Leading to [[m|en|damnation]].^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[damnum]]

+ * [[damnō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}