{"id":642719,"date":"2024-10-20T12:48:10","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T16:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=642719"},"modified":"2024-10-20T12:49:13","modified_gmt":"2024-10-20T16:49:13","slug":"whats-the-etymology-of-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/20\/whats-the-etymology-of-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the etymology of injury?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not+just (injuria\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 wrong, injustice)\u00e2\u20ac\u201d judge?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">jus, right, law\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 same as justice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How and why did the word injury evolve then to talk about physical injuries, comma, then when it talks about physical injuries in ancient Greek, Latin, what is it?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The word <strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153injury\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/strong> originates from the Latin term <strong><em>injuria<\/em><\/strong>, which means \u00e2\u20ac\u0153wrong\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153injustice.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d This Latin word is a combination of <strong><em>in-<\/em><\/strong>, meaning \u00e2\u20ac\u0153not,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and <strong><em>jus<\/em><\/strong>, meaning \u00e2\u20ac\u0153right\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153law.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d So, <strong><em>injuria<\/em><\/strong> literally translates to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153not right\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153unlawful act.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The term was adopted into Old French as <strong><em>injurie<\/em><\/strong>, retaining its original meaning related to injustice or wrongful action. When it entered the English language in the Middle Ages, it began to take on the additional sense of physical harm or damage resulting from a wrongful act. Over time, <strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153injury\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/strong> came to primarily denote physical harm, although it still carries connotations of wrongdoing or violation of rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not+just (injuria\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 wrong, injustice)\u00e2\u20ac\u201d judge? jus, right, law\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 same as justice. *** How and why did the word injury evolve then to talk about physical injuries, comma, then when it talks about physical injuries \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642719"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":642722,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642719\/revisions\/642722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}