nocente
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Latin nocentem (“harmful; guilty”), present active participle of noceō (“to harm, damage”), whence Italian nuocere.
Adjective edit
nocente (plural nocenti) (obsolete, literary)
- harmful, noxious
- Synonyms: dannoso, nocivo, nocuo
- Antonyms: innocuo, inoffensivo
- 1614, Giovan Battista Marino, “La rosa [The Rose]”, in Poesie varie[1], Bari: Giuseppe Laterza & Figli, published 1913, I. Le canzoni e i madrigali amorosi, page 32:
- cacciando un dí correa, ¶ quando a la vaga dea ¶ spina nocente e cruda ¶ punse del bianco piè la pianta ignuda.
- [Aphrodite] was hunting one day, and running, when a noxious and cruel thorn pricked the naked sole of the wandering goddess' white foot.
- guilty
- 1349–1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, “Giornata seconda – Novella ottava”, in Decameron; republished as Aldo Francesco Massera, editor, Il Decameron[2], Bari: Laterza, 1927:
- Il conte, dolente che d’innocente, fuggendo, s’era fatto nocente, […] prestamente trapassò in Inghilterra […]
- The grieving Count, whose flight turned him from innocent to guilty, […] soon moved to England.
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Participle edit
nocente (plural nocenti)
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Latin edit
Participle edit
nocente