noxious的词源

英文词源

noxious

noxious: [17] Noxious was adapted from Latin noxius ‘harmful’, a derivative of noxa ‘damage, injury’. (An earlier borrowing was obnoxious [16], from Latin obnoxius, which contains the prefix ob- ‘to’.) Related to noxa were Latin nex ‘destruction, death, slaughter’ (source of English internecine and pernicious) and nocēre ‘injure’ (source of English innocent, innocuous, and nuisance).
=> innocent, innocuous, internecine, nuisance, obnoxious, pernicious

noxious (adj.)

c. 1500, from Latin noxius "hurtful, injurious," from noxa "injury, hurt, damage entailing liability" (related to nocere "to hurt," and to nex "slaughter"), from PIE *nek-ro-, causative form of root *nek- (1) "death" (see necro-).

中文词源

noxious：有毒的

来自拉丁语noxius,有毒的，伤害的，来自PIE*nek,死亡，致死，词源同innocent,necro-.

该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：noxious 词源，noxious 含义。

noxious：有害的；有毒的

拉丁语中nocere(伤害)、nex(破坏,死亡,屠杀)和noxa(损害)属于同源词。noxa(损害)派生了noxius,被英语借用为noxius。

词根词缀： nox(-noc-)伤害 + -i- + -ous形容词词尾,有某种性质的