noun · neutersecond declension
incommodum
incommodum n (genitive incommodī)
Meaning
- neuterdisadvantage, inconvenience, detriment, harm, setback, misfortune
CHARĪNUS: Hōcine est crēdibile, aut memorābile, / tanta vēcordia innāta cuīquam ut siet, / ut malīs gaudeant, atque ex incommodīs / alterīus sua ut compārent commoda? Āh, idne est vērum?
CHARINUS: Is this believable, or noteworthy, that such great madness could be innate in anyone, that they rejoice in evils, and [it is] from the disadvantages of another that they rate their own advantages? Ah, is that true?166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 625–629 - neuterdefeat, disaster
- neuterailment
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
damnum, malumincommodum -ī (n) — in IVLIANVS II: Imperium, ch. 12
setback, loss
incommodum -ī (n) — in De Bello Gallico III
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | incommodum | incommoda |
| genitive | incommodī | incommodōrum |
| dative | incommodō | incommodīs |
| accusative | incommodum | incommoda |
| ablative | incommodō | incommodīs |
| vocative | incommodum | incommoda |
incommŏdum, i, v. incommodus, II.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
incommodum ī, n
incommodus, inconvenience, trouble, disadvantage, detriment, injury, misfortune, loss: ex incommodis Alterius sua ut conparent commoda, T.: incommodi nihil capere: ex his incommodis pecuniā se liberare: propter maiorum incommodorum metum: miserans incommoda nostra, V.: Multa senem circumveniunt incommoda, H.: ferre incommoda vitae, Iu.: accidit incommodum, tanta enim tempestas cooritur, ut, etc., Cs.: id incommodo tuo (facere): quid iniquitas loci habeat incommodi, Cs.: sine magno incommodo civitatis: valetudinis.
Origins
Nominalization of incommodus.