innocent的词源

英文词源

innocent: innocent: [14] Someone who is innocent is literally ‘harmless’. The word comes, partly via Old French, from Latin innocēns, an adjective formed with the negative prefix in- from the present participle of nocēre ‘harm’ (source of English nuisance) – hence, ‘not harming’. The slight semantic shift from ‘not harming’ to ‘blameless, guiltless’ took place in Latin.
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innocent (adj.): mid-14c., "doing no evil, free from sin or guilt," from Old French inocent "harmless; not guilty; pure" (11c.), from Latin innocentem (nominative innocens) "not guilty, harmless, blameless," from in- "not" (see in- (1)) + nocentem (nominative nocens), present participle of nocere "to harm" (see noxious). Meaning "free from guilt of a specific crime or charge" is from late 14c. The earliest use was as a noun, "person who is innocent of sin or evil" (c. 1200). The Holy Innocents (early 14c.) were the young children slain by Herod after the birth of Jesus (Matt. ii:16).

in-,不，非，-noc,伤害，词源同noxious,nuisance.即没有伤害的，引申词义无辜的，天真的。

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in-为否定前缀；词根-noc-指“伤害”，来自拉丁语nocere（伤害）；-ent为后缀；字面义“无害的”。与它来自同一拉丁单词的还有：nocuous（有害的）、nuisance（讨厌的东西；伤害）等。词根nox是词根noc的变体，如noxious（有毒的）、obnoxious（讨厌的）。