The story
- Latin · derived fromnūbēs
- French · borrowed fromnuance
- English todaynuance
Borrowed from French nuance (“nuance, shade, hue”). Omitting several steps, from Latin nūbēs. Compare typologically Italian sfumatura (< Latin fūmus).
Words from the same roots
Latinnūbēs all →
nubiformnubivagant
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.