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==Etymology==

==Etymology==

[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

[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>

==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".

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.

[[Category: Law]]

[[Category: Law]]