Where does “nuisible” come from?

nuisible (French) comes from Old French nuisable, from French nuire, from Vulgar Latin nocere, from Latin nocēre.

nuisible (French): harmful, damaging, injurious

Definitions

  1. harmful, damaging, injurious

Ancestry of “nuisible”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchnuisable—
2Frenchnuireto harm, to spoil
3Vulgar Latinnocerepresent active infinitive of noceō; second-person...
4Latinnocēre—

Words derived from “nuisible”

Every word from Latin nocēre →Every word from Vulgar Latin nocere →Every word from French nuire →