Where does “nurturance” come from?
Nurturance comes from English nurture plus the French suffix -ance, from Latin -antia denoting a state or condition, ultimately from Latin nutrire meaning to feed or nourish.
nurturance (English): The provision of physical and emotional care
Definitions
- The provision of physical and emotional care
Ancestry of “nurturance”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | nurture | The act of nourishing or nursing; tender care;... |
| 2 | Middle English | norture | Sustenance, comestibles, diet; The bringing up of... |
| 3 | Old French | norriture | food |
| 4 | Late Latin | nutritura | nourishment; nominative feminine singular of... |
| 5 | Latin | nutrire | present active infinitive of nūtriō;... |
| 6 | Latin | nutrio | I suckle, breastfeed, nurse |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | snoutrjō | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | snew-tr-ih₂ | female nurser |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)neh₂- | to swim; to float |