The story
- Latin · derived fromnitidus“shiny”
- English todaynitic
According to the FAO, it comes from Latin nitidus (“shiny”).
Words from the same roots
Latinnitidus all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
nitic
Today it means: Having a reasonable amount of clay, but that falls apart into flat-edged geometrical forms that have shiny faces Full definition →
Latin nitidus