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noceo

noceo

to hurt, damage

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 183 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. noceo — de Vaan

noceo 'to hurt, damage' [v. Π; pf nocui, ppp. nocitum; s-sb. noxit (Lex ΧΠ, Lucil.)] (LexXILl·) , Derivatives: Unnocens 'not guilty, virtuous' (Naev.+), innocentia 'innocence' (Caecil.+); rioxa 'injurious behaviour, punishment, harm' (Andr.+), noxia 'wrongdoing, damage' (Lex ΧΠ+), noxius 'guilty, harmful' (P1.+), innoxius 'innocent, harmless5, noxitudo 'wrongdoing' (Ace), obnoxius 'indebted, liable, submissive' … — [de Vaan, s.v. noceo, p. 425]

2. nŏcĕo — Lewis & Short

nŏcĕo, cŭi, cĭtum, 2 (

I inf. pres. pass. nocerier, Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 73; gen. plur. nocentūm, Ov. P. 1, 8, 19; perf. subj. noxit: ne boa noxit, Lucil. ap. Paul. ex Fest. s. v. Fama, p. 360 Müll.; Fronto ad M. Caesarem, 3, 13 Mai.), v. n. (and a.; v. infra e) [Sanscr. root nac, disappear; Gr. ne/kus; cf.: neco, nex, noxa, pernic-ies], to do harm, inflict injury, do hurt to (cf.: obsum, obficio, laedo).—Constr.
(a) Absol. or with dat.: declinare ea, quae nocitura videantur, Cic. Off. 1, 4, 11: arma alia ad tegendum, alia ad nocendum, id. Caecin. 21, 60: nihil nocet, it does no harm, id. Att. 12, 47, 1: nocere alteri, id. Off. 3, 5, 23: jurejurando accepto, nihil iis nocituros hostes, Caes. B. C. 3, 28: jura te nociturum non esse homini de hac re nemini, Plaut. Mil. 5, 18.—
(b) With a homogeneous or a general (pronominal) object: OB EAM REM NOXAM NOCVERVNT, have been guilty of a crime, from an old fetial formula, Liv. 9, 10, 9: si uredo aut grando quippiam nocuit, Cic. N. D. 3, 35, 86: quid nocet haec? Juv. 14, 153.—
(g) In pass. (very rare), to be harmed, injured: larix ab carie aut a tineā non nocetur, Vitr. 2, 9 med.: noceri eas (ciconias) omnibus quidem locis nefas ducunt, sed, etc., Sol. 40 fin.—
(d) Impers. pass. (class.), an injury is done or inflicted: ut ne cui noceatur, Cic. Off. 1, 10, 31: mihi nihil ab istis noceri potest, id. Cat. 3, 12, 37: ut in agris vastandis hostibus noceretur, Caes. B. G. 5, 19: ipsi nihil nocitum iri, id. ib. 5, 36: neque diem decet me morari, neque nocti nocerier, that injury be done to the night, Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 73.—(e) Act. (late Lat.): nihil illum nocuit, Vulg. Luc. 4, 35; id. Act. 7, 26; 18, 10.—Hence, nŏcens, entis, P. a., that commits a wicked action, bad, wicked, culpable, criminal (cf.: sons, reus): nocens et nefarius, Cic. Off. 2, 14, 51: homines nocentissimi, id. Div. in Caecil. 3, 9: nocentissima victoria, Cic. Verr. 1, 14, 41: nocentissimi mores, Quint. 2, 15, 32: meritā caede nocentūm (poet. for nocentium; cf. Auct. Her. 4, 35, 45), Ov. P. 1, 8, 19.—
II In gen., hurtful, harmful, pernicious, baneful, injurious: a pestiferis et nocentibus refugere, Cic. N. D. 2, 47, 120: boletus, Juv. 6, 620.—Comp.: edit cicutis allium nocentius, Hor. Epod. 3, 3.—Hence, adv.: nŏcenter, hurtfully, injuriously (not ante-Aug.): nocenter armata, Col. 8, 2, 10: abscessus nocenter adulescit, Cels. 5, 28, 11; Tert. Apol. 14.

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Where it came from

  • de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. noceo (scan p. 425; entry #1153). Root candidates: *nokeje-.

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