English → Latin
“damage” in Latin
incommodusinconvenient, unsuitable, unfit, unseasonable; troublesome, disagreeabledamnumdamage, injury; loss, disadvantage; fine, mulct, penaltydētrīmentumharm, loss, damage; defeat; detrimentafferōto carry forth; to bring forth; conduct; to bring, bear, convey or carry information, report, announce, inform, publish,accipiōto receive, accept, take; to receive, accept, or take in something so as to alter one’s mental or physical state; to heanoceōto injure, do harm to, hurt, damagedamnōto discredit, find fault, disapprove, reject; to bind, oblige; to sentence someone to a punishment, declare guilty, condīnferōto carry, bring, put, place, or throw in, into, to, or upon somewhere or something; insert; to bring forward, introduce,apportōto bring, carry, conduct or convey to; import; to bring an arrival, arrive, come to
The English word damage itself goes back to Latin damnum, through *damnāticum.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
damage
incommodum (any adverse and prejudicial accident; opposed to commodum): damnum (loss, especially by wrong, opposed to lucrum): detrimentum (detriment, opposed to emolumentum): without damage to your health, sine incommodo valetudinis tuae: to inflict damage, incommodum alicui ferre, or afferre: detrimento aliquem afficere: to suffer damage, incommodum or detrimentum capere, or accipere: to suffer some damage, aliquid damni contrahere. [Vid. DETRIMENT, HURT.]
Damages; to get costs and damages, litem cum impensis obtinere. To sue anybody for damages, aliquem judicio recuperatorio persequi.
damage v.
nocere; damno or detrimento esse: damnum inferre; detrimentum afferre, inferre, or apportare: the storm damages the ships, tempestas affligit or afflictat naves. Vid: INJURE.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for damage?
- The usual Latin words for “damage” are incommodus, damnum, dētrīmentum; also afferō, accipiō, noceō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.