Where does “nasturtium” come from?

nasturtium (Latin) comes from Latin nāris, from Latin nāsus, from Latin -ō, from Proto-Indo-European -ō — Derives nouns from roots.

nasturtium (Latin): cress

Definitions

  1. cress

Ancestry of “nasturtium”, step by step

nasturtium traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Latin nāris

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

via Latin torquēre

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latintorquēre—

Words derived from “nasturtium”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ō →Every word from Latin -ō →Every word from Latin nāsus →