noxa

From Latin noxa (“harm, damage”).

noxa (plural noxae)

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

• axon

From Latin noxa (“harm, damage”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈnoksɒ]
• Hyphenation: no‧xa
• Rhymes: -sɒ

noxa (plural noxák)

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

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”).

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

First-declension noun.

• noxālis

• nex
• necō
• noceō

• → Italian: nossa, noxa
• → Spanish: noxa

• “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

• nosa, nóxa, nósa — alternative spellings

Inherited from Latin nux, nucem.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnoza/

noxa f (plural noxe)

1. walnut (nut)

   Synonym: coca

• → Albanian: noz

• “nóxa”, in el Galepin – www.elgalepin.com
• Basso, Walter (2005) “nósa”, in Dizionario da scarsèla veneto–italiano, 2nd edition, Padua: Ed. ScantaBauchi, page 182
• Nazari, Giulio (1876) “nosa”, in Dizionario vicentino–italiano […], Oderzo: Bianchi, page 107a
• Boerio, Giuseppe (1867) “nosa”, in Dizionario del dialetto veneziano, 3rd edition, Venice: G. Cecchini, page 443bc
• Patriarchi, Gasparo (1821) “nosa”, in Vocabolario veneziano e padovano […], 3rd edition, Padua: Tipografia del Seminario, page 133b