英文词源
- nursery (n.)
- c. 1400, "breeding, nursing," from Old French norture, norreture "food, nourishment; education, training," from Late Latin nutritia "a nursing, suckling," from Latin nutrire "to nourish, suckle" (see nourish). Meaning "place or room for infants and young children and their nurse" is from c. 1300. As a type of school, 1580s. Horticultural sense is from 1560s. Nursery rhyme is from 1832.
中文词源
来自nurse,护理，照料。引申词义幼儿园，苗圃。
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：nursery 词源，nursery 含义。
词根词缀： nurs(= -nutr- )哺育→照看 + -ery名词词尾
