nourrir
French
verb
Definitions
- to feed provide with nourishment, nourish
- to nurture, to fuel
- (pronominal) to eat, to feed oneself
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French nourrir inherited from Old French norrir inherited from Latin nūtrīre.
Origin
Latin
nūtrīre
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- malnourish English
- nourish English
- nourishable English
- nourisher English
- nourishest English
- nourisheth English
- overnourish English
- renourish English
- undernourish English
- nūtrīre Latin
- nutribile Italian
- nutrire Italian
- rinutrire Italian
- nutrir Spanish, Castilian
- norischen Middle English
- norrir Old French
- norrisseor Old French
- nodrir Catalan, Valencian
- nutri Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- nourrir Middle French
- nudrî Friulian
- nudrir Old Spanish
- nourri Louisiana Creole French