From Proto-Italic *snoutrjō, from Proto-Indo-European *snew-tr-ih₂ (“female nurser”), from a root *snew- (“to suckle”), which may be related to *(s)neh₂- (“to flow”). Cognate with Sanskrit प्रस्नौति (prasnauti, “to drip, to release liquids”), प्रस्नुत (prasnuta, “releasing mother's milk”). Appurtenance of Ancient Greek νάω (náō, “to flow, to stream”) is difficult and requires additional assumptions.^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈnuː.tri.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈnuː.tri.o]

nūtriō (present infinitive nūtrīre, perfect active nūtrīvī or nūtriī, supine nūtrītum); fourth conjugation

1. to suckle, breastfeed, nurse
2. to feed

   Synonyms: alō, sagīnō, pāscō, pāscor, sustentō, foveō

   • Statius, Thebaid.

     pervigilemque focis ignem longaeva sacerdos nutriet

     And an aged priestess shall feed an un-sleeping fire

• Pokorny, Julius (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 971
• “nutrio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “nutrio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “nutrio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnu.trjɔ/
• Rhymes: -utrjɔ
• Syllabification: nu‧trio

nutrio

1. vocative singular of nutria