Other forms: injuries
An injury is damage to your body, for example from a fall or an accident. A serious injury, injury time, avoid injury.
It is damage from outside where illness comes from within, which is the distinction that separates the two words. Injury time in football is the minutes added for stoppages. Adding insult to injury is old. Note that the Latin means injustice, from in- plus ius, right — so an injury was first a wrong done.
1nouninjuryDamage to the body from an accident or blow.
“He missed the rest of the season with a knee injury.”
injury is physical damage.
Latin iniuria means a wrong or injustice — in plus ius, right or law. Justice and jury come from the same law.
Proto-Indo-European
*h₂yew-
Latin
iniūria — injustice; wrong; offense
Anglo-Norman
injurie
Middle English
injurie
English, today
injury
Built from
From Middle English injurie, from Anglo-Norman injurie, from Latin iniūria (“injustice; wrong; offense”), from in- (“not”) + ius (“right, law”). a doublet of injuria.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA