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Definition: INJURIA |
INJURIANoun1. Injury; invasion of another's rights. |
Date "INJURIA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1657. (references) |
Etymology: Injuria \In*ju"ri*a\, noun; plural Injurie. [Latin expression]. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Detraction | Sarcasm, cynicism; criticism (disapprobation); invective; envenomed tongue; spretae injuria formae. |
Disrespect | Irreverence; slight, neglect, spretae injuria formae, superciliousness; (contempt). |
Ugliness | Forbidding countenance, vinegar aspect, hanging look, wry face, "spretae injuria formae". |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: INJURIA |
| English words defined with "INJURIA": Injurie. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "INJURIA": Gradgrind. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "INJURIA": INJURY. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "INJURIA" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Latin (hurt, injury, wrong), Spanish (abuse, insult, invective, offence, offense, scathe). |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "INJURIA" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "INJURIA" is used about 26 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 26 | 68,323 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "INJURIA": spretae injuria formae. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
injuria | 4 |
fit injuria non volenti | 3 |
calunia difamação injuria | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "INJURIA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | volenti non fit injuria (violenti non fit injuria). (various references) | |
Dutch | volenti non fit injuria (violenti non fit injuria). (various references) | |
Finnish | LAT:volenti non fit injuria (violenti non fit injuria). (various references) | |
French | volenti non fit injuria (violenti non fit injuria). (various references) | |
German | volenti non fit injuria (violenti non fit injuria). (various references) | |
Italian | volenti non fit injuria (violenti non fit injuria). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | injuriaay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | volenti non fit injuria (violenti non fit injuria), risco consentido dano assumido (violenti non fit injuria). (various references) | |
Spanish | volenti non fit injuria (violenti non fit injuria). (various references) | |
Swedish | volenti non fit injuria (violenti non fit injuria). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | volenti non fit injuria. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-i-j-n-r-u" | |
-3 letters: airn, inia, jura, rain, rani, ruin, unai. | |
-4 letters: ain, air, ani, jar, jin, jun, raj, ran, ria, rin, run, urn. | |
-5 letters: ai, an, ar, in, na, nu, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-i-j-n-r-u" | |
+3 letters: jubilarian. | |
+4 letters: jubilarians. | |
+5 letters: journalistic, journalizing. | |
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