The word for today is…
nurture (verb) – 1. (a) To raise or educate (a child, for example).
(b) To encourage or help develop; cultivate.
2. To provide sustenance for; nourish.
(noun) – 1. (a) The action of raising or caring for offspring: the nurture of an infant.
(b) (Biology) The sum of environmental influences and conditions acting on an organism, especially in contrast to heredity.
(c) The fostering or overseeing of the development of something.
2. Something that nourishes; sustenance.
Source : The Free Dictionary
Etymology : It’s no coincidence that nurture is a synonym of nourish—both are derived from the Latin verb nutrire, meaning “to suckle” or “to nourish.” The noun nurture first appeared in English in the 14th century, but the verb didn’t arrive until the 15th century. Originally, the verb nurture meant “to feed or nourish.” The sense meaning “to further the development of” didn’t come into being until the end of the 18th century. Mary Wollstonecraft, mother of Frankenstein author Mary Shelley, is credited with first giving life to that sense in her Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792): “Public spirit must be nurtured by private virtue,” she wrote. Other nutrire descendants in English include nutrient, nutritious, nutriment, nutrition, and, of course, nourishment.
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