Latin

Alternative forms

• injūria

Noun

iniūria f ‎(genitive iniūriae); first declension

1. injury, wrong, offense, insult
2. injustice, wrongdoing
3. damage, harm, hurt, injury
4. slander

Inflection

First declension.

Derived terms

• iniūrior

Descendants

References

• iniuria in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “iniuria”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be a victim of the malice of Fortune: ad iniurias fortunae expositum esse
    
  • to avenge an insult: iniurias persequi (Verr. 2. 3. 9)
    
  • to wrong a person: iniuriam inferre, facere alicui
    
  • to wrong a person: iniuria afficere aliquem
    
  • to provoke a person by a gratuitous insult: iniuria lacessere aliquem
    
  • to refrain from doing a wrong, an injustice: iniuria abstinere (Off. 3. 17. 72)
    
  • to be the victim of an injustice: iniuriam accipere
    
  • to suffer wrong: iniuriam ferre, pati
    
  • to repel an injury: iniurias defendere, repellere, propulsare
    
  • to leave a wrong unpunished, to ignore it: iniurias neglegere
    
  • to protect any one from wrong: ab iniuria aliquem defendere
    
  • to give some one satisfaction for an injury: satisfacere alicui pro (de) iniuriis
    
  • to proceed against some one with the utmost rigour of the law; to strain the law in one's favour: summo iure agere cum aliquo (cf. summum ius, summa iniuria)
    
  • and rightly too: neque immerito (iniuria)
    
  • and rightly too: neque id immerito (iniuria)
    
• iniuria in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers