What is the Latin word for detriment?

The usual Latin words for “detriment” are dētrīmentum, damnum, iaciō; also īnferō, rēspūblica, accipiō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

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“detriment” in Latin

dētrīmentumharm, loss, damage; defeat; detriment damnumdamage, injury; loss, disadvantage; fine, mulct, penalty iaciōto throw, hurl, cast, fling; throw away; to lay, set, establish, build, found, construct, erect; to send forth, emit; br īnferōto carry, bring, put, place, or throw in, into, to, or upon somewhere or something; insert; to bring forward, introduce,rēspūblicaa republic, commonwealth; the state, nation; politics, civil affairs accipiōto receive, accept, take; to receive, accept, or take in something so as to alter one’s mental or physical state; to hea capiōto take, to capture, to catch, to seize, to take captive, to storm; to take on, adopt; to hold, to contain

The English word detriment itself goes back to Latin terō, through detrimentum.

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

detriment

detrimentum (a loss one has suffered; opposed to emolumentum): damnum (a loss for which one has to blame one’s self; opposed to lucrum): jactura (a voluntary loss). To cause, occasion, etc., detriment to anybody or anything, alicui or alicui rei detrimentum ferre, inferre; alicui rei detrimentum importare (e.g., reipublicae, Cic.): aliquem detrimento afficere: to suffer detriment, detrimentum facere, accipere, capere [☞ never detrimentum pati, which would be to bear it]: to inflict detriment on anybody’s reputation, auctoritatem alicujus minuere: without detriment to your honour, sine imminutione dignitatis tuae: if anything has suffered any detriment, si aliqua res aliquid detrimenti ceperit: to see that the state suffers no detriment, videre or curare ne quid respublica detrimenti capiat (the charge given to the consuls, etc., in times of public danger): not without great detriment to anything; or, to the great detriment of anything, non sine magno alicujus rei detrimento (Cic.).

Quick answer

What is the Latin word for detriment?: The usual Latin words for “detriment” are dētrīmentum, damnum, iaciō; also īnferō, rēspūblica, accipiō. 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.