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noxa

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See also: nóxa

English

Etymology

From Latin noxa (harm, damage).

Noun

noxa (plural noxae)

  1. (medicine) Anything that exerts a harmful influence, such as trauma, poison, etc.

Translations

Anagrams

Hungarian

Etymology

From Latin noxa (harm, damage).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈnoksɒ]
  • Hyphenation: no‧xa
  • Rhymes: -sɒ

Noun

noxa (plural noxák)

  1. (medicine) noxa (anything that exerts a harmful influence)

Declension

More information singular, plural ...
More information possessor, single possession ...
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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European suffixed o-grade *noks- of *neḱ- (perish, disappear); see also Middle Welsh angheu (death), Breton ankou, Old Irish éc, Latin noxius (harmful), nocēre (to hurt, harm), necāre (to kill), nex (murder, violent death) (as opposed to mors), Slovene and Lower Sorbian nož ("knife"), Old Persian 𐎻𐎴𐎰𐎹𐎫𐎹 (vi-n-θ-y-t-y /⁠vi-nathayatiy⁠/, he injures), Avestan 𐬥𐬀𐬯𐬌𐬌𐬈𐬌𐬙𐬌 (nasiieiti, disappears), 𐬥𐬀𐬯𐬎- (nasu-, corpse), Sanskrit नश्यति (naśyati, disappear, perish).

Noun

noxa f (genitive noxae); first declension

  1. hurt, harm, injury
    Synonyms: damnum, dētrīmentum, incommoditās, calamitās, pauperiēs, maleficium, iniūria, vulnus, fraus, plāga
    Antonyms: beneficium, favor
  2. fault, offence, crime
    Synonyms: dēlictum, peccātum, scelus, culpa, error, crīmen, facinus, malum, vitium, iniūria, dēlinquentia, commissum, maleficium
    Antonyms: bonum, rēctum, virtūs

Declension

First-declension noun.

More information singular, plural ...

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Italian: nossa, noxa
  • Spanish: noxa

References

  • noxa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • noxa”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • noxa”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • noxa”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • noxa”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Venetan

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Latin nux, nucem.

Pronunciation

Noun

noxa f (plural noxe)

  1. walnut (nut)
    Synonym: coca

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Albanian: noz

References

  • nóxa”, in el Galepin – www.elgalepin.com
  • Basso, Walter (2005), “nósa”, in Dizionario da scarsèla veneto–italiano, 2nd edition, Padua: Ed. ScantaBauchi, page 182
  • Nazari, Giulio (1876), “nosa”, in Dizionario vicentino–italiano [], Oderzo: Bianchi, page 107a
  • Boerio, Giuseppe (1867), “nosa”, in Dizionario del dialetto veneziano, 3rd edition, Venice: G. Cecchini, page 443bc
  • Patriarchi, Gasparo (1821), “nosa”, in Vocabolario veneziano e padovano [], 3rd edition, Padua: Tipografia del Seminario, page 133b
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