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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-
).
