nutricio
Latin
Etymology
From nūtrīcius + -ō or -iō. Attested in a few inscriptions.[1] Not to be confused with nūtrītio.
Noun
nūtrīciō m (genitive nūtrīciōnis); third declension
- nurse, nourisher
Descendants
- Old French: norriçon
- Middle French: norriçon, nourisson, nourriçon
Adjective
nūtrīciō
- dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of nūtrīcius
References
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “nŭtrīcio”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 7: N–Pas, page 248
Further reading
- “nutricio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- nutricio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- nutricio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin nutricius.
Adjective
nutricio (feminine nutricia, masculine plural nutricios, feminine plural nutricias)
- nutritional
Further reading
- “nutricio”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014