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Latin
Etymology
From iniūrius, from in- + iūs, iūris.
Pronunciation
Noun
iniūria f (genitive iniūriae); first declension
- injury, wronging, offense, insult, wrong
- Synonyms: dēlictum, peccātum, scelus, vitium, noxa, crīmen, culpa, facinus, malum, dēlinquentia, error, maleficium
- Antonyms: bonum, rēctum, virtūs
- injustice, wrongdoing
- Synonym: iniūstitia
- Antonym: iūstitia
- damage, harm, hurt, injury
- Synonyms: damnum, dētrīmentum, incommoditās, calamitās, pauperiēs, maleficium, vulnus, noxa, fraus
- Antonyms: beneficium, favor
- slander
Declension
First-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “iniuria”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- iniuria in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be a victim of the malice of Fortune: ad iniurias fortunae expositum esse
- to avenge an insult: iniurias persequi (Verr. 2. 3. 9)
- to wrong a person: iniuriam inferre, facere alicui
- to wrong a person: iniuria afficere aliquem
- to provoke a person by a gratuitous insult: iniuria lacessere aliquem
- to refrain from doing a wrong, an injustice: iniuria abstinere (Off. 3. 17. 72)
- to be the victim of an injustice: iniuriam accipere
- to suffer wrong: iniuriam ferre, pati
- to repel an injury: iniurias defendere, repellere, propulsare
- to leave a wrong unpunished, to ignore it: iniurias neglegere
- to protect any one from wrong: ab iniuria aliquem defendere
- to give some one satisfaction for an injury: satisfacere alicui pro (de) iniuriis
- to proceed against some one with the utmost rigour of the law; to strain the law in one's favour: summo iure agere cum aliquo (cf. summum ius, summa iniuria)
- and rightly too: neque immerito (iniuria)
- and rightly too: neque id immerito (iniuria)
- “iniuria”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers