(declension-3) a child's nurse; wet nurse; milk mother
(declension-3) (anything that provides nutriment and support)
(declension-3, figuratively) (that which rears, originates, promotes or fosters)
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Pronunciat com a (IPA)
[ˈnuː.triːks]
Etimologia (Anglès)
Inherited from Proto-Italic *(s)noutrī, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)neu-tr-ih₂-. Can potentially be reanalyzed as nūtriō, nūtrītum (“to suckle”, verb) + -trīx f (“-ess”, agentive suffix), with haplology of -trītrī- to -trī-.