Etymograph

English

nocisensor

Nocisensor comes from Latin noceo ‘to injure, do harm to, hurt, damage’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *neḱ- ‘perish, disappear’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*neḱ-1‘perish, disappear’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*noḱ-éye-ti1reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*nokeō1‘to harm, hurt, injure’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEnoceo2‘to injure, do harm to, hurt, damage’
  5. Englishtodaynocisensor2

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin noceo
  2. 2 Wiktionary, English nocisensor

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*neḱ-Wiktionary, Latin noceo‘perish, disappear’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*noḱ-éye-tiWiktionary, Latin noceoreconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*nokeōWiktionary, Latin noceo‘to harm, hurt, injure’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEnoceoWiktionary, English nocisensor‘to injure, do harm to, hurt, damage’
  5. EnglishtodaynocisensorWiktionary, English nocisensor

Linked words

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

nectar, obnoxious, necropolis, internecine, 17 more

through Latin noceo ‘to injure, do harm to, hurt, damage’

innocent, innocence, nuisance, innocuous, noxious, 12 more

Today it means

noun Synonym of nociceptor.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “nocisensor”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Latin noceo. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *neḱ- / nocisensor

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