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We have found lemma(root) word of nurses : nurse.
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[nəːs], (Noun)
Definitions:
- a person trained to care for the sick or infirm, especially in a hospital
(e.g: a team of doctors and nurses)
- a worker bee, ant, or other social insect, caring for a young brood
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Origin
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late Middle English: contraction of earlier nourice, from Old French, from late Latin nutricia, feminine of Latin nutricius ‘(person) that nourishes’, from nutrix, nutric- ‘nurse’, from nutrire ‘nourish’. The verb was originally a contraction of nourish, altered under the influence of the noun
[nəːs], (Verb)
Definitions:
- give medical and other attention to (a sick person)
(e.g: he was gradually nursed back to health)
- feed (a baby) at the breast
(e.g: the women nursed their babies)
- try to play strokes which keep (the balls) close together
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Origin
:
late Middle English: contraction of earlier nourice, from Old French, from late Latin nutricia, feminine of Latin nutricius ‘(person) that nourishes’, from nutrix, nutric- ‘nurse’, from nutrire ‘nourish’. The verb was originally a contraction of nourish, altered under the influence of the noun
[nəːs], (Noun)
Definitions:
- a greyish Australian shark of shallow inshore waters
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Origin
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late 15th century: originally as nusse, perhaps derived (by wrong division) from an huss (see huss)
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