detriment

Meanings

1. Harm, hurt, damage.
2. A charge made to students and barristers for incidental repairs of the rooms they occupy.
3. The position or state of a planet when it is in the sign opposite its house, considered to weaken it.
4. The position or state of being eclipsed, entirely dark (sable).

1. To be detrimental to; to harm or mar.

Etymology

From Old French detriement, from Latin detrimentum (“loss, damage, literally a rubbing off”), from dēterere (“to rub off, wear”), from dē- (“down, away”) + terere (“to rub”). Detriment is related to the word detritus, and built on similar foundations to the word impediment.