Etymology

nutrix

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Today it means: A nurse, primarily a wet nurse or similar hired child carer. Full definition →

Latin nūtrīx
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The story

  1. Latin · learned borrowing fromnūtrīx
  2. English todaynutrix

Learned borrowing from Latin nūtrīx.

Words from the same roots

Latinnūtrīx all →

nutricial

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