dannaggio

• damaggio, dammaggio

From Old French damage, Old Occitan damnatge, from Vulgar Latin *damnāticum, derived from Latin damnum (“damage”).

• IPA^(key): /danˈnad.d͡ʒo/
• Rhymes: -addʒo
• Hyphenation: dan‧nàg‧gio

dannaggio m (plural dannaggi)

1. (obsolete) damage, harm

   Synonym: danno

   • mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXX”, in Inferno [Hell]‎, lines 136–141; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎, 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     Qual è colui che suo dannaggio sogna,
     che sognando desidera sognare,
     sì che quel ch’è, come non fosse, agogna,
     tal mi fec’ io, non possendo parlare,
     che disïava scusarmi, e scusava
     me tuttavia, e nol mi credea fare.

     And as he is who dreams of his own harm,
     who dreaming wishes it may be a dream,
     so that he craves what is, as if it were not;
     such I became, not having power to speak,
     for to excuse myself I wished,
     and still excused myself, and did not think I did it.

• dannaggio in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana