nutrition

nutrition

See also: Nutrition

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French nutrition, from Old French nutricion, from Latin nutritio.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: nyo͞o-trĭʹ-shən, IPA^(key): /njuːˈtɹɪ.ʃən/
• (US) enPR: no͞o-trĭʹ-shən, IPA^(key): /nuˈtɹɪ.ʃən/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɪʃən

Noun

nutrition (usually uncountable, plural nutritions)

1. (biology) The organic process by which an organism assimilates food and uses it for growth and maintenance.
2. That which nourishes; nutriment.

   I accidentally ate a worm which was in my apple - my uncle said the extra nutrition would do me good.

Derived terms

• nutritional
• nutritionalist
• nutritionally
• nutritionism
• nutritionist

Related terms

• nutrient
• nutritious
• nutriture

Translations

nutrition

Albanian: ushqim (sq) m Arabic: تَغْذِيَة‎ (ar) f (taḡḏiya), غِذَاء‎ m (ḡiḏāʾ), إِطْعَام‎ m (ʾiṭʿām), اِغْتِذَاء‎ m (iḡtiḏāʾ) Armenian: սնուցում (hy) (snucʿum) Azerbaijani: qidalanma, qida (az) Belarusian: харчава́нне n (xarčavánnje) Bengali: গেজা (bn) (geza) Bulgarian: хра́нене (bg) n (hránene) Burmese: အာဟာရ (my) (ahara.) Chinese: Cantonese: 營養, 营养 (jing4 joeng5) Mandarin: 營養／营养 (zh) (yíngyǎng) Min Nan: 營養 (zh-min-nan), 营养 (îng-ióng) Czech: výživa (cs) f Danish: ernæring Dutch: voeding (nl) f Estonian: toitumine Finnish: ravitsemus (fi) French: nutrition (fr) f Galician: nutrición (gl) f Georgian: კვება (ḳveba) German: Ernährung (de) f, Nahrung (de) f, Nutrition (de) f Greek: διατροφή (el) (diatrofí), θρέψη (el) f (thrépsi) Hebrew: תְּזוּנָה‎ f (t'zuná) Hindi: पोषण (hi) m (poṣaṇ), खाद्य (hi) m (khādya), खाना (hi) m (khānā) Hungarian: táplálás (hu) Icelandic: næring f Indonesian: nutrisi (id), gizi (id) Irish: oiliúint f Italian: nutrizione (it) f Japanese: 営養 (ja) (えいよう, eiyō), 栄養 (ja) (えいよう, eiyō) Kazakh: тамақтандыру (tamaqtandyru), азықтану (azyqtanu), тамақтану (tamaqtanu) Korean: 영양 (ko) (yeong'yang) Kyrgyz: азыктандыруу (azıktandıruu), азыктануу (ky) (azıktanuu), тоюттандыруу (ky) (toyuttandıruu), тоюттануу (toyuttanuu) Latvian: uzturs m Lithuanian: mityba f Macedonian: исхрана f (ishrana), прехрана f (prehrana) Malayalam: പോഷണം (ml) (pōṣaṇaṃ) Maori: taioranga Norwegian: ernæring (no) Persian: تغذیه‎ (fa) (tağziye), غذا‎ (fa) (ğazâ) Polish: żywienie (pl) n, pożywienie (pl) n, odżywianie (pl) n Portuguese: nutrição (pt) f Romanian: nutrire (ro), nutriție (ro) f Russian: пита́ние (ru) n (pitánije) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: и̏схрана f, пре̏храна f Roman: ȉshrana (sh) f, prȅhrana (sh) f Slovak: výživa f Slovene: prehrana (sl) f Spanish: nutrición (es) f Swedish: näring (sv), näringslära Tagalog: paniyahan, paniya Tajik: ғизо (tg) (ġizo), хӯрок (tg) (xürok), тағзия (taġziya) Thai: โภชนาการ (th) (poo-chá-naa-gaan) Turkish: beslenme (tr) Turkmen: iýmitlenmek Ukrainian: харчува́ння n (xarčuvánnja) Uzbek: boqish (uz), oziqlanish Vietnamese: sự dinh dưỡng, dinh dưỡng (vi)

See also

• nutrition on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin nūtrītiō, nūtrītiōnem, from Latin nūtriō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ny.tʁi.sjɔ̃/

• Audio

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Noun

nutrition f (plural nutritions)

1. nutrition

Related terms

• nourrir

Further reading

• “nutrition”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Interlingua

Noun

nutrition (uncountable)

1. nutrition