## Meanings
1. Physical harm that makes something less useful or valuable.
2. To harm something so that it is broken or made less good.
3. Money paid to someone for harm or loss caused to them (usually plural).

## Examples
- The storm did a lot of damage to the area.
- Be careful not to damage the fragile glasses while unpacking.
- The court ordered the company to pay damages to the workers.

## Derived Forms
- cryodamage
- damageability
- damageable
- damageful
- damageless
- damageous
- damager
- microdamage
- nanodamage
- neurodamage
- photodamage
- redamage

## Related Forms
- damn
- indemnity

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *deh₂p-
- Root: damage
- Root: *damnāticum
- Root: damnum
- Root: scath

## Etymology
From Middle English damage, from Old French damage, from Vulgar Latin *damnāticum from Classical Latin damnum. Compare modern French dommage. Largely displaced native Middle English scath (whence unscathed). Cognate with Spanish daño.

## AI Etymology
damage comes from Middle English damage, from Old French damage, from Vulgar Latin *damnāticum from Classical Latin damnum. Compare modern French dommage. Largely displaced native Middle English scath (whence unscathed). Cognate with Spanish daño. The historical chain includes Proto-Indo-European *deh₂p-, Middle English damage, Old French damage, la-vul *damnāticum, Latin damnum, and later related forms. Current senses include Physical harm that makes something less useful or valuable and to harm something so that it is broken or made less good. English relatives and later formations include cryodamage, damageability, damageable, damn, indemnity.

## Topics
- Safety & Risk

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