The story
- Latin · derived fromnervus“sinew”
- Medieval Latin · derived fromnervus“nerve”
- Middle English · inherited fromnerve
- English todaynerue
Recorded since circa [1374] as Middle English nerve, from Medieval Latin nervus (“nerve”), from Latin nervus (“sinew”). Doublet of neuron and sinew.
Words from the same roots
Middle Englishnerve all →
nerve
Medieval Latinnervus all →
nerve
Latinnervus all →
nervenervation
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.