nocente

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Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /noˈt͡ʃɛn.te/
  • Rhymes: -ɛnte
  • Hyphenation: no‧cèn‧te

Etymology 1

From Latin nocentem (“harmful; guilty”), present active participle of noceō (“to harm, damage”), whence Italian nuocere.

Adjective

nocente (plural nocenti) (obsolete, literary)

  1. harmful, noxious
    Synonyms: dannoso, nocivo, nocuo
    Antonyms: innocuo, inoffensivo
    • 1614, Giovan Battista Marino, “La rosa [The Rose]”, in Poesie varie‎, Bari: Giuseppe Laterza & Figli, published 1913, I. Le canzoni e i madrigali amorosi, page 32:
      cacciando un dí correa, ¶ quando a la vaga dea ¶ spina nocente e cruda ¶ punse del bianco piè la pianta ignuda.
      was hunting one day, and running, when a noxious and cruel thorn pricked the naked sole of the wandering goddess' white foot.
  2. guilty
    Synonyms: colpevole, reo
    Antonym: innocente

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

nocente (plural nocenti)

  1. present participle of nuocere

Anagrams

Latin

Participle

nocente

  1. ablative masculine/feminine/neuter singular of nocēns
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