noxa

See also: nóxa

English

Etymology

From Latin noxa (“harm, damage”).

Noun

noxa (plural noxae)

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

Related terms

• noxal
• noxious

 

Translations

anything that exerts a harmful influence

• Hungarian: noxa (hu)
• Romanian: noxă (ro) f

Anagrams

• axon

Hungarian

Etymology

From Latin noxa (“harm, damage”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

noxa (plural noxák)

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

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	noxa	noxák
accusative	noxát	noxákat
dative	noxának	noxáknak
instrumental	noxával	noxákkal
causal-final	noxáért	noxákért
translative	noxává	noxákká
terminative	noxáig	noxákig
essive-formal	noxaként	noxákként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	noxában	noxákban
superessive	noxán	noxákon
adessive	noxánál	noxáknál
illative	noxába	noxákba
sublative	noxára	noxákra
allative	noxához	noxákhoz
elative	noxából	noxákból
delative	noxáról	noxákról
ablative	noxától	noxáktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	noxáé	noxáké
non-attributive possessive - plural	noxáéi	noxákéi

Possessive forms of noxa
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	noxám	noxáim
2nd person sing.	noxád	noxáid
3rd person sing.	noxája	noxái
1st person plural	noxánk	noxáink
2nd person plural	noxátok	noxáitok
3rd person plural	noxájuk	noxáik

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”), 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”).

Noun

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	noxa	noxae
Genitive	noxae	noxārum
Dative	noxae	noxīs
Accusative	noxam	noxās
Ablative	noxā	noxīs
Vocative	noxa	noxae

Related terms

• nex
• necō
• noceō

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
• 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