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Where does “nui” come from?

nui (French) comes from French nuire, from Vulgar Latin nocere, from Latin nocēre.

nui (French): past participle of nuire

Definitions

  1. past participle of nuire

Ancestry of “nui”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchnuireto harm, to spoil
2Vulgar Latinnocerepresent active infinitive of noceō; second-person...
3Latinnocēre—
Every word from Latin nocēre →