nourish Copy link Outline 1. nūtrio, 1 (strictly, as a mother does an infant; also in wider sense)2. ălo, ui, ĭtum and tum, 3 (in wider sense; to furnish with food or aliment of any kind; to bring up, rear) • nourish: 1. nūtrio, 1 (strictly, as a mother does an infant; also in wider sense): whom the she-wolf n.'s, quos n. lupa, Ov. F. 2, 415 (v. to suckle): the earth n.'s plants, terra herbas n., id. R. Am. 45. Fig., of mental nurture, Hor. Od. 4, 4, 25. Comps. innutrio, 4 (to n. in something: v. to nurture); ēnutrio, 4 (to n. up, rear: rare): Ov. M. 4, 289: Plin. 2. ălo, ui, ĭtum and tum, 3 (in wider sense; to furnish with food or aliment of any kind; to bring up, rear): to n. horses, equos a., Ter. (v. to keep, IV.): Liv. Esp. fig.: honour n.'s the arts, honor a. artes, Cic. Tusc. 1, 2, 4: these studies n. youth, haec studia adolescentiam a., id. Arch. 7, 16. See also to support.