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The word "Nice" comes to English from Latin, by way of Old French and Middle English...

Although it now means pleasant, agreeable, satisfactory, good natured, or kind, not too long ago, it meant 'fastidious'. Before that, it referred to qualities of coyness or reservedness in a negative way... essentially 'stupid'.

The Latin root word is nescius, which means 'ignorant', coming from nescire, 'not know'.

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