iniuria

Latin

Alternative forms

• injūria

Etymology

From iniūrius, from in- + iūs, iūris.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /inˈi̯uː.ri.a/, [ɪnˈi̯uːriä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /inˈju.ri.a/, [inˈjuːriä]

Noun

iniūria f (genitive iniūriae); first declension

1. injury, wronging, offense, insult, wrong

   Synonyms: dēlictum, peccātum, scelus, vitium, noxa, crīmen, culpa, facinus, malum, dēlinquentia, error, maleficium

   Antonyms: bonum, rēctum, virtūs

2. injustice, wrongdoing

   Synonym: iniūstitia

   Antonym: iūstitia

3. damage, harm, hurt, injury

   Synonyms: damnum, dētrīmentum, incommoditās, calamitās, pauperiēs, maleficium, vulnus, noxa, fraus

   Antonyms: beneficium, favor

4. slander

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	iniūria	iniūriae
Genitive	iniūriae	iniūriārum
Dative	iniūriae	iniūriīs
Accusative	iniūriam	iniūriās
Ablative	iniūriā	iniūriīs
Vocative	iniūria	iniūriae

Derived terms

• iniūrior

Descendants

• English: injury
• French: injure
• Italian: ingiuria
• Portuguese: injúria
• Romanian: injurie
• Sicilian: gnuria, nciuria
• Spanish: injuria

References

• “iniuria”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• iniuria in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], 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