English → Latin
“injury” in Latin
iniūriainjury, wronging, offense, insult, wrong; injustice, wrongdoing; damage, harm, hurt, injuryoffēnsiōoffense, offence; accident, misfortune, mishapcontumēliainsult, reproach, contumely, abuse, mistreatment; affront, invective; humiliation, injury; assault, violenceincommodusinconvenient, unsuitable, unfit, unseasonable; troublesome, disagreeabledamnumdamage, injury; loss, disadvantage; fine, mulct, penaltydētrīmentumharm, loss, damage; defeat; detrimentfrauscheating, deceit, deception, fraud, guile, stratagem, trick, treachery, wiles; delusion, error; injury, hurt, harminiungōto join or fasten, unite; to charge, impose (a burden); to enjoin or charge
The English word injury itself goes back to Latin iniūrius, through iniūria.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
injury
Unjust act, injuria (both that which I suffer and that which I inflict): offensio (an offending anybody, and the offence itself): contumelia (insulting act). To suffer many injuries, multis injuriis affici: to protect anybody from injury, aliquem prohibere injuria. ☞ “An injury inflicted by anybody” is sometimes alicujus injuria, and sometimes both the objective and attributive genitives are found together, veteres Helvetiorum injuriae populi Romani (= “the injuries inflicted on the Roman nation by the Helvetii.” The two genitives must be on different sides of the substantive): irreparable injuries, injuriae insanabiles: to inflict an injury on anybody, injuriam or contumeliam alicui facere; injuriam alicui inferre or injungere: to load anybody with injuries and insults, injurias contumeliasque imponere alicui (Cic.): to suffer an injury at anybody’s hands, injuriam accipere ab aliquo: to believe one’s self to have suffered an injury, *aliqua re se laesum or violatum putare (to feel one’s self hurt by anything): to pass over an injury, injuriam non insectari: to forgive an injury for anybody’s sake, injuriam condonare alicui (Caes., B.G., 1, 20): to revenge an injury, injuriam persequi or ulcisci.
Hurt, incommodum (any contrary or prejudicial circumstance; opposed to commodum): damnum (loss, especially through fault or demerit; opposed to lucrum): detrimentum (detriment, damage; opposed to emolumentum): fraus (anything prejudicial on the part of another). Without injury, sine incommodo; sine damno; sine fraude: without injury to your health, commodo or sine incommodo valetudinis tuae: without injury to your honor, sine imminutione dignitatis tuae: as far as can be done without injury to me, quod sine fraude mea fiat: to the injury of, cum incommodo; cum damno; cum detrimento: to my great injury, cum magno meo damno: to the great injury of the state, maximo reipublicae detrimento or incommodo (☞ pessimo publico, Liv., 2, 1, is unusual): if it can be done without injury to the whole (state), commodo reipublicae facere si possint: to tend to the injury of, incommodo, or damno, or fraudi esse: to do anything to one’s own injury, aliquid incommodo suo facere: to suffer injury, incommodum, or detrimentum capere, or accipere; damnum or detrimentum facere (☞ but damnum pati is not good; Vid: To SUFFER): to suffer some injury, aliquid damni contrahere.: to occasion injury to anybody, incommodum alicui ferre or afferre; alicui damnum dare, or apportare, or afferre; detrimentum alicui afferre, or inferre, or importare; detrimento aliquem afficere; fraudem alicui ferre.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for injury?
- The usual Latin words for “injury” are iniūria, offēnsiō, contumēlia; also incommodus, damnum, dētrīmentum. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.