Detrimentum, ti, n. g. Detritu. Terent.Detriment: domage: losse: hurt.Detrimentum & Emolumentum, repugnantia.Cic.Incommodum & detrimentum.Cic.Detrimentum accipere. Cæs. To receiue hurt and losse.Afferre detrimentum, Vide AFFERO.Capere.Cic.To take losse: to sustaine domage.Facere.Cic. Idem. Importata publicis rebus detrimenta. Ci. Domage brought to.Inferre detrimentum, Vide INFERO.Iniungere detrimentum Reipub. Vide INIVNGO. Detrimenta atque damna cum maximis iniurijs contumelijsqúe perferre.Cic.To sustaine.Non sine magno Reipub. detrimento. Cicero. Not without great hurt of the common weale.Detrimentôsus. pen. pro. Adiectiuum. Cæs. That causeth much hurte and domage.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
dētrīmentum, i, n. [detero], a rubbing off. I.Lit.: limae tenuantis, Ap. M. 6, p. 175, 25.—II.Transf., loss, damage, detriment. A. In gen. (class.; cf. for syn.: damnum, jactura, incommodum, dispendium): emolumenta et detrimenta (quae w)felh/mata et bla/mmata appellant) communia esse voluerunt, Cic. Fin. 3, 21; cf. Varr. L. L. 5, 176 Müll.; so opp. emolumentum, Cic. Fin. 1, 16, 53: nostro incommodo detrimentoque doleamus, id. Brut. 1, 4: afferre,
to occasion, cause
, Caes. B. C. 1, 82, 2; Nep. Att. 2, 3; cf.: magna inferre, Caes. B. C. 2, 2 fin.: importare, Cic. de Or. 1, 9, 38: accipere, to suffer, in gen., id. de Imp. Pomp. 6, 15; id. Phil. 5, 12, 34; esp. to suffer defeat in battle, Caes. B. G. 5, 22, 3; 5, 53, 6; 6, 1, 3 et saep.: capere, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 18, 2; cf. the foll., and facere, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 9; Nep. Cato 2 fin.; Sen. Tranq. 11 med.: acceptum sarcire, Caes. B. C. 1, 45, 2; 3, 67, 2; cf. reconcinnare, id. ib. 2, 15fin.: in bonum vertere, id. ib. 3, 73fin., et saep.: animae suae detrimentum pati,
loss, ruin
, Vulg. Matt. 16, 26: detrimentum sui facere, id. Luc. 9, 25.— B. Esp. 1. In the well-known formula, by which unlimited power was intrusted to the consuls: videant consules (dent magistratus operam, provideant, etc.), ne quid respublica detrimenti capiat (accipiat), Caes. B. C. 1, 5, 3; 1, 7, 4; Cic. Mil. 26, 70; id. Cat. 1, 2; id. Fam. 16, 11, 3; Liv. 3, 4 fin.—2. In the histt., the loss of a battle, defeat, overthrow (cf. calamitas and incommodum, no. II.), Caes. B. G. 5, 52; 6, 34, 7; 7, 19, 4 et saep.
