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The corpus record — Latin

damnatio

damnatio · f

condemnation

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 61 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

damnātĭo — Lewis & Short

damnātĭo, ōnis, f.id.,

I condemnation (good prose).
I Prop.
A In gen.: (video) omnes damnatos, omnes ignominia affectos, omnes damnatione ignominiaque dignos illuc facere, etc., Cic. Att. 7, 3, 5; Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 41: quid est illa damnatione judicatum, nisi, etc.? id. Clu. 20: si damnatio ingruit, Tac. A, 4, 35: certi damnationis, Suet. Tib. 61 al.—In eccl. Lat. esp. of the displeasure of God: quorum damnatio justa est, Vulg. Rom. 3, 8; 8, 1.—In plur.: reorum acerbissimae damnationes (opp. libidinosissimae liberationes), Cic. Pis. 36; Tac. A. 3, 31 fin.—With gen. of the offence: ambitus, Cic. Clu. 36, 98; of the punishment: tantae pecuniae, Cic. Verr. 2, 17, 42.—With ad and accus. of the punishment: ad furcam, Dig. 48, 19, 28: hominis ad carnificinam, dei ad poenam sempiternam, Lact. 5, 11, 8; animarum ad aeterna supplicia, id. 2, 12, 9.—
B Esp. with reference to the meaning of damnas (v. h. v.): an heir's obligation to pay, Paul. Sent. 3, 6.—
II Transf., of inanimate things: apiastrum in confessa damnatione est venenatum, Plin. 20, 11, 45, § 116.

In the wild

6 of 167 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.