nurture

From Middle English norture or noriture, from Old French norriture or norreture, from Late Latin nutritura meaning 'nourishment,' from Latin nutrire, 'to nourish.'

The word traveled from Latin's act of nourishing, through a Late Latin noun for nourishment itself, into Old French and then Middle English, where it settled into the spelling and sense we use today.

It shares its root with 'nourish,' both tracing back to Latin nutrire.