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| ==Etymology== | | ==Etymology== |
− | [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French condempner, from [[Latin]] condemnare, from com- + damnare to condemn - see damn below | + | [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French condempner, from [[Latin]] condemnare, from com- + damnare to condemn - see damn below |
− | *Date: [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Century 14th century] | + | *Date: [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Century 14th century] |
| ==Definitions== | | ==Definitions== |
| *1 : to declare to be reprehensible, wrong, or [[evil]] usually after weighing [[evidence]] and without reservation <a [[policy]] widely condemned as racist> | | *1 : to declare to be reprehensible, wrong, or [[evil]] usually after weighing [[evidence]] and without reservation <a [[policy]] widely condemned as racist> |
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| ==Description== | | ==Description== |
| *Damn | | *Damn |
− | Its [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_language Proto-Indo-European] [[language]] [[origin]] is usually said to be a root dap-, which appears in [[Latin]] and [[Greek]] words meaning "feast" and "expense". (The [[connection]] is that feasts tend to be expensive.) In Latin this root provided a theorized early Latin noun *dapnom, which became Classical Latin damnum = "damage" or "expense". But there is a Vedic [[Sanskrit]] root dabh or dambh = "harm". | + | Its [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_language Proto-Indo-European] [[language]] [[origin]] is usually said to be a root dap-, which appears in [[Latin]] and [[Greek]] words meaning "feast" and "expense". (The [[connection]] is that feasts tend to be expensive.) In Latin this root provided a theorized early Latin noun *dapnom, which became Classical Latin damnum = "damage" or "expense". But there is a Vedic [[Sanskrit]] root dabh or dambh = "harm". |
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− | The word damnum did not have exclusively [[religious]] overtones. From it in [[English]] came "condemn"; "damnified" (an obsolete adjective [[meaning]] "damaged"); "damage" (via French from Latin damnaticum). It began to be used for being found [[guilty]] in a [[court]] of [[law]]; but, for example, an early French treaty called the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strasbourg_Oaths Strasbourg Oaths] includes the [[Latin]] phrase in damno sit = "would cause harm". From the [[judicial]] [[meaning]] came the [[religious]] meaning. | + | The word damnum did not have exclusively [[religious]] overtones. From it in [[English]] came "condemn"; "damnified" (an obsolete adjective [[meaning]] "damaged"); "damage" (via French from Latin damnaticum). It began to be used for being found [[guilty]] in a [[court]] of [[law]]; but, for example, an early French treaty called the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strasbourg_Oaths Strasbourg Oaths] includes the [[Latin]] phrase in damno sit = "would cause harm". From the [[judicial]] [[meaning]] came the [[religious]] meaning. |
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| [[Category: Law]] | | [[Category: Law]] |