Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nutrication

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: nu-tri-ca-tion
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

feeding or nourishment

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"Beside the remarkable teeth, the tongue of this animal is a second argument to overthrow this airy nutrication"

Etymology

From Latin nutricatio, from nutricare, nutricari (“to suckle, nourish”), from nutrix (“a nurse”).

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: nutricatio

Usage

Obsolete

Questions

What does nutrication mean?: feeding or nourishment
Where does nutrication come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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