## Etymology
From Latin indemnitas ('security from damage'), from indemnis ('unhurt'), from in- ('not') + damnum ('loss, damage'). Entered English via Middle French indemnité.

## AI Etymology
indemnity comes from Latin indemnitas ('security from damage'), from indemnis ('unhurt'), from in- ('not') + damnum ('loss, damage'). Entered English via Middle French indemnité. Morphologically, the prefixed shape matters: the initial element belongs to the recorded formation and helps explain the modern form's surface analysis. In present English, the noun sense is "security or protection against loss, or compensation for it", so the historical development ends in a clearly identifiable modern dictionary use. The same base also appears in related forms such as indemnify, indemnification, condemn, and damn, and in derivatives such as indemnify and indemnification. Its semantic neighborhood includes compensation, insurance, security, and reimbursement, which helps locate the modern sense without adding a separate etymological claim. The named historical forms include Latin indemnitas and Latin damnum.

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