nocente

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /noˈt͡ʃɛn.te/
• Rhymes: -ɛnte
• Hyphenation: no‧cèn‧te

Etymology 1

From Latin nocentem (“harmful; guilty”), present active participle of noceō (“to harm, damage”), whence Italian nuocere.

Adjective

nocente (plural nocenti) (obsolete, literary)

1. 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.

2. guilty

   Synonyms: colpevole, reo

   Antonym: innocente

   • 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

• innocente
• nocivo
• nocumento
• nocuo
• nuocere

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

nocente (plural nocenti)

1. present participle of nuocere

Anagrams

• centone, cotenne

Latin

Participle

nocente

1. ablative masculine/feminine/neuter singular of nocēns