- neural
- neural: [19] Neural is one of a wide range of words for which English is indebted to Greek neuron ‘nerve’ (a relative of Latin nervus, from which English gets nerve). Others include neuralgia [19] (etymologically ‘nerve-pain’), neurology [17], neurosis [18], and neurotic [17].
=> nerve - neural (adj.)
- "pertaining to a nerve or nerves," 1830, from Greek neuron "nerve" (see neuro-) + adjectival suffix -al (1). Related: Neurally.