noxa

Etymology

From Latin noxa (“harm, damage”).

Noun

noxa

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

Anagrams

• axon

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”), Latin nocere (“to hurt, harm”), Latin nex (“murder, violent death”) (as opposed to mors), Old Persian 𐎻𐎴𐎰𐎹𐎫𐎹 (vi-nathayatiy, “he injures”), Avestan 𐬥𐬀𐬯𐬌𐬌𐬈𐬌𐬙𐬌‎ (nasyeiti, “disappears”), 𐬥𐬀𐬯𐬎‎ (nasu-, “corpse”), Sanskrit नश्यति (naśyati, “disappear, perish”).

Noun

noxa f (genitive noxae); first declension

1. hurt, harm, injury
2. fault, offence, crime

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