noxa

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English

Etymology

From Latin noxa (“harm, damage”).

Noun

noxa (plural noxae)

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

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Hungarian

Etymology

From Latin noxa (“harm, damage”).

Pronunciation

Noun

noxa (plural noxák)

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

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative noxa noxák
accusative noxát noxákat
dative noxának noxáknak
instrumental noxával noxákkal
causal-final noxáért noxákért
translative noxává noxákká
terminative noxáig noxákig
essive-formal noxaként noxákként
essive-modal — —
inessive noxában noxákban
superessive noxán noxákon
adessive noxánál noxáknál
illative noxába noxákba
sublative noxára noxákra
allative noxához noxákhoz
elative noxából noxákból
delative noxáról noxákról
ablative noxától noxáktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		noxáé noxáké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		noxáéi noxákéi
Possessive forms of noxa
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. noxám noxáim
2nd person sing. noxád noxáid
3rd person sing. noxája noxái
1st person plural noxánk noxáink
2nd person plural noxátok noxáitok
3rd person plural noxájuk noxáik

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.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative noxa noxae
Genitive noxae noxārum
Dative noxae noxīs
Accusative noxam noxās
Ablative noxā noxīs
Vocative noxa noxae

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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
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