Etymology: < damn v.(The conjecture that, in sense 2, the word is the Hindí dām, dawm, an ancient copper coin, of which 1600 went to a rupee (see Yule), is ingenious, but has no basis in fact.)

Etymology: Shortened < damned adj. Compare dem adv.

Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French dampner, damner (French damner ) to invalidate, to annul, to cancel (a1119), to condemn to hell or eternal punishment (a1125), to harm (early 12th cent.), to sentence, to convict (1141), to blame (13th cent.), to eliminate (13th cent.), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin damnāre, dampnāre to pass judgement against, condemn, to cause the condemnation of, to judge to be at fault, to renounce, reject, to doom (to a fate), to bind, oblige (under the terms of a will), in post-classical Latin also to condemn to hell or eternal punishment (4th cent.), to damage, injure (8th cent.; from 12th cent. in British sources), to wrong (a person) (9th cent.), to invoke damnation on (13th cent. in a British source) < damnum damnum n.Romance parallels. Compare Old Occitan dampnar to damn, to condemn, to harm, to punish, Catalan damnar to condemn to eternal punishment, to annul (14th cent.), Spanish †damnar , also (re-formed from the noun: see damnum n.) dañar to condemn to eternal punishment, to damage (1100), Portuguese danar to sentence, to convict, to damage, to degenerate, to condemn to eternal punishment, to get angry, to have difficulty (1262), Italian dannare to sentence, to convict (12th cent.), to condemn to eternal punishment (early 13th cent.), to torment (c1250), to cancel, to annul (a1267), to pronounce a thing or practice to be bad (13th cent.), to harm (a1338), to consign to oblivion (c1338). Form history. Forms with -e- are attested in French from the early 13th cent., and are apparently due to the influence of condemner condemn v. The corresponding forms in English (see β. forms) are partly after French, and probably partly after the past tense and past participle forms (with the epenthetic -p- ) of the semantically close deem v. (compare dempt at deem v. Forms). In Middle English prefixed and unprefixed forms of the past participle are attested (see y- prefix). The word has sometimes (from the 17th cent. onwards) been written with asterisks, dashes, etc., representing suppressed letters, so as to avoid the charge of blasphemy. Compare also the euphemistic alterations dang v.¹, darn v.², dee v., dem v.², dog v.² Specific senses. In sense 5 after Hebrew heḥĕrīm to devote (a thing) to destruction ( < ḥērem thing devoted to God (by means of its ritual total destruction): see cherem n.).

Etymology: < damn v. Compare earlier God damn me int. and Goddammit int.