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Latin
Etymology
From in- (“not”) + nocuus (“harmful”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
innocuus (feminine innocua, neuter innocuum); first/second-declension adjective
- harmless, innocuous
- blameless, innocent, guiltless
8 CE,
Ovid,
Fasti 2.623:
- innocuī veniant.
- Let guiltless come .
(The ancient Roman festival Caristia united family members and encouraged reconciliation of their differences. Ovid, however, here writing satirically, uses the present active subjunctive verb veniant to invite only guilt-free relatives to gather. In the following verses, the poet tells the troublemakers to stay home! And Ovid's sly intent can be playfully translated with other meanings for innocuus listed here.)
- unharmed, unhurt, uninjured
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “innocuus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “innocuus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- innocuus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.