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Latin
Etymology
Substantive of noxius (“harmful; guilty”) or a variant form of noxa (“hurt, harm, injury”).
Pronunciation
Noun
noxia f (genitive noxiae); first declension
- Hurt, harm, damage, injury.
- An injurious act, fault, offence, trespass, wrongdoing.
Declension
First-declension noun.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Descendants
- Old French: noise (uncertain)
References
- “noxia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “noxia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- noxia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.