nurse
English
/nɜːs/, /nɝs/
noun
Definitions
- (archaic) A wet nurse.
- A person (usually a woman) who takes care of other people’s young.
- A person trained to provide care for the sick.
- (figurative) One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, or fosters.
- (horticulture) A shrub or tree that protects a young plant.
- (nautical) A lieutenant or first officer who takes command when the captain is unfit for his place.
- A larva of certain trematodes, which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction.
- A nurse shark.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English norice derived from Old French norrice derived from Latin nūtrīcius (that nourishes, nourishing, that nurses suckles).
Origin
Latin
nūtrīcius
Gloss
that nourishes, nourishing, that nurses suckles
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- allonurse English
- dry English
- drynurse English
- girl English
- hound English
- maid English
- nonnurse English
- nursable English
- nursebot English
- nursegirl English
- nursehound English
- nurseless English
- nurselike English
- nursemaid English
- nursepond English
- nurser English
- nursest English
- nursetender English
- nurseth English
- nursie English
- nursling English
- nurst English
- nursy English
- nutritious English
- pond English
- supernurse English
- telenurse English
- tender English
- nūtrīcia Latin
- nūtrīcius Latin
- nodriza Spanish, Castilian
- *(s)neh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- norice Middle English
- norische Middle English
- norserye Middle English
- norrice Old French
- नर्स Hindi
- nars Cebuano
- ners Indonesian
- nyrs Welsh
- nyrsys Welsh
- nosse Norman
- nars Tagalog
- unesi Zulu
- nes Tok Pisin
- bunesi Swati
- nesi Swati
- nas Hausa
- नर्स Nepali