Where does “injurer” come from?
Injurer comes from English injure, which derives from Latin iniuria meaning "wrongdoing or insult," ultimately from Proto-Indo-European ne meaning "not."
injurer (English): One who injures something
Definitions
- One who injures something
Ancestry of “injurer”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | injure | To wound or cause physical harm to a living... |
| 2 | English | injury | Damage to the body of a human or animal; The... |
| 3 | Middle English | injurie | Injury, damage; violation of one's effects or... |
| 4 | Anglo-Norman | injurie | injury; damage; harm |
| 5 | Latin | iniūria | injury, wronging, offense, insult, wrong |
| 6 | Latin | iniūrius | injurious, wrongful, unjust |
| 7 | Latin | iūs | law, right |
| 8 | Latin | dīcō | to say, talk, speak, utter, mention |
| 9 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 10 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 11 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 12 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 13 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 14 | Latin | calceus | shoe |