nutricium

Latin

Etymology

From nūtrīcius.

Noun

nūtrīcium n (genitive nūtrīciī or nūtrīcī); second declension

1. nursing, nourishment

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Romanian: nutreț (ending replaced with -ĭcium)
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: noreus, neureus
  • Old French: nouris
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Old Gascon: noïris
    • Gascon: neuris, neurit
  • Occitan: noirissa

Adjective

nūtrīcium

1. inflection of nūtrīcius:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular

References

• “nutricius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “nŭtrīcium”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 7: N–Pas, page 248