incommodum

incommodum n (genitive incommodī); second declension

1. disadvantage, inconvenience, detriment, harm, setback, misfortune

   Synonyms: incommoditās, dētrīmentum, īnfortūnium

   • 166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 625–629:

     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?

2. defeat, disaster

   Synonyms: clādēs, vulnus, calamitās, perniciēs, interitus, exitium, cāsus, miseria, pestis

   Antonyms: usus, profectus, commodum, commoditās

3. ailment

   Synonyms: morbus, aegritūdō, malum, pestis, valētūdō, labor, infirmitas

   Antonyms: salūs, valētūdō

Second-declension noun (neuter).

incommodum

1. inflection of incommodus:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular

• incommodum in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2025), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• “incommodum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “incommodum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• incommodum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to inconvenience, injure a person: incommodo afficere aliquem
    
  • (ambiguous) to relieve a difficulty: incommodis mederi
    
  • (ambiguous) much damage was done by this collision: ex eo navium concursu magnum incommodum est acceptum