noun · femininefirst declension
damma
damma f or m (genitive dammae)
Meaning
- femininemasculineA fallow deer
Mopso Nisa datur! Quid non speremus amantes? Iungentur iam gryphes equis, aevoque sequenti
Nosa has been given to Mopsus! What, should lovers even hope? Gryphons are now to the cart yoked together with horses, and, new times comming, bashful fallow deer will with dogs now quench its thirst.c. 41 BCE – 39 BCE, Vergilius, Eclogae 8.26–28[…], cumque metu rapitur, tunica velata recincta currit, ut auditis territa damma lupis, corniger hanc tumidis rapuisse Numicius undis
[…] , as she was taken by fear and in her loose shirt fled, like the fallow deer startled by the howling of wolves, they say horned Numicius had her stolen to the rising waves and in his waters hidden.8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 3.645–648
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | damma | dammae dāmae |
| genitive | dammae dāmae | dammārum dāmārum |
| dative | dammae dāmae | dammīs dāmīs |
| accusative | dammam dāmam | dammās dāmās |
| ablative | dammā | dammīs dāmīs |
| vocative | damma | dammae dāmae |
damma (dama), ae, f. (m., Verg. Ec. 8, 28; Georg. 3, 539; A. 8, 641; Stat. Ach. 2, 408; cf. Quint. 9, 3, 6) [R. dam-, v. domo], a general name for beasts of the deer kind;
I. a fallow deer, buck, doe, antelope, chamois, Plin. 8, 53, 79, § 214; 11, 37, 45, § 124; Verg. G. 1, 308; 3, 410; Hor. Od. 1, 2, 12; Ov. M. 1, 442; 10, 539; 13, 832; id. F. 3, 646; Juv. 11, 121; Sen. Hippol. 62; Sid. Ep. 8, 6.—
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
damma (not dāma), ae, f (poet. also m),
DOM-, a deer, buck, doe, antelope, chamois (a general name for the deer tribe), V., H., O., Iu.— Venison : nil damma sapit, Iu.
Origins
From Proto-Indo-European *demh₂- (“to domesticate, tame”). Related to domō (“to tame”) and cognate with English tame.
Elsewhere
- GermanDambockfrom Late Latin dāmus
- GermanDamhirschfrom Late Latin dāmus
- GermanDamtierfrom Late Latin dāmus
- GermanDamwildfrom Late Latin dāmus
- Old Frenchdainfrom Late Latin dāmus
- Dutchdamhertfrom Late Latin dāmus
- Middle Low Germandamhertefrom Late Latin dāmus
- Danishdamhjortfrom Late Latin dāmus
- Swedishdamhjortfrom Late Latin dāmus
Italo-Romance
- Italiandama
- Italiandamma