Etymograph

English

innocuousness

From innocuous + -ness.

A compound of innocuous + -ness

Proto-Indo-European *neḱ- ‘to perish, disappear’

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Proto-Italic *nokeō ‘to harm, hurt, injure’

Latin noceō ‘to harm, damage’

Latin nocuus ‘harmful’

Latin innocuus ‘harmless’

English innocuous

Today it means

noun The condition of being innocuous

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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