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Unknown. Ernout and Meillet rejects association with ūrō(“to burn”) as a folk etymology, since that verb etymologically has a stem ending in -s- and so should have yielded *ū̆stīca instead.[1]
^ Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “urtica”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 755
Further reading
“urtica”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“urtica”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
urtica in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.