English

Noun

noxa

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

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”), Latin nocere ‎(“to hurt, harm”), Latin nex ‎(“murder, violent death”) (as opposed to mors), Old Persian 𐎻𐎴𐎰𐎹𐎫𐎹 ‎(vi-nathayatiy, “he injures”), Avestan 𐬥𐬀𐬯𐬌𐬌𐬈𐬌𐬙𐬌 ‎(nasyeiti, “disappears”), 𐬥𐬀𐬯𐬎 ‎(nasu-, “corpse”), Sanskrit नश्यति ‎(naśyati, “disappear, perish”).

Noun

noxa f ‎(genitive noxae); first declension

1. hurt, harm, injury
2. fault, offence, crime

Inflection

First declension.

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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “noxa”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: 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