Where does “nares” come from?

Nares comes from Latin nāres, the plural of nāris meaning nostril, from an Indo-European root meaning to breathe or smell.

nares (English): plural of naris; plural of nare

Definitions

  1. plural of naris; plural of nare

Ancestry of “nares”, step by step

nares traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English naris

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishnarisa nostril
2Latinnārisnostril
3LatinnāsusThe nose
4Latin-ōsuffixed to nouns or adjectives. Originally a-stem nouns. Later extended to nouns with other stems. Forms regular first-conjugation verbs
5Proto-Indo-European-ōDerives nouns from roots

via English nare

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishnareA nostril
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ō →Every word from Latin -ō →Every word from Latin nāsus →