noble
‘illustrious, excellent, magnificient’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. nobble, nowbyl, nobel, nobill < O.F. noble ‘of noble bearing or birth’ < Lat. nobilis ‘well-known, famous, renowned; excellent, superior, splendid; high-born, of superior birth’ < gnobilis ‘knowable’ < gnoscere ‘to come to know’ < noh < gno- < Tamil kaṇ
Other meanings: a gold coin formerly used in England, worth half of a mark; Chemistry: inactive or inert; Winemaking: designating a variety of grape recognized as consistently producing wine of outstanding quality under favourable conditions.