diet
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Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English diet, dyet, diete, from Old French diete, from Medieval Latin dieta (“regimen, regulation; assembly”), from Latin diaeta, from Ancient Greek δίαιτα (díaita).
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diet (plural diets)
- The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.
- The diet of the giant panda consists mainly of bamboo.
- 2013, Martin D Buckland, Lynda Hall, Alan Mowlem, A Guide to Laboratory Animal Technology, page 56:
- It is common policy to order no more diet than will be used within one month.
- (countable) A controlled regimen of food and drink, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health.
- (by extension) Any habitual intake or consumption.
- He's been reading a steady diet of nonfiction for the last several years.
- 2021 February 3, Farhad Manjoo, “Can We Please Stop Talking About Stocks, Please?”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
- Last week the aging video game retailer emerged as the hottest stock on Wall Street, a story just unexpected and absurd enough to fill the new Trump-shaped void in our nation’s media diet.
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- → Japanese: ダイエット
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diet (not comparable)
- (of a food or beverage) Containing less fat, salt, sugar, or calories than normal, or claimed to have such.
- diet soda
- 1982, Consumer Guide, Dieter's Complete Guide to Calories, Carbohydrates, Sodiums, Fats & Cholesterol, page 18:
- Many grocery chains offer premium-priced lean or diet hamburger; but the fat content is usually at least 10 percent, sometimes 15 percent or more.
- 1998, Andy Sae, Chemical Magic from the Grocery Store:
- The difference in weight (mass) of the regular and the diet drink of the same brand roughly equals to the amount of sugar in the regular drink.
- 2010, Lonely Planet Peru, →ISBN, page 347:
- Diet Light (Pizarro 724; snacks S2-7; 9:30am-10pm)
This perennially busy place serves not-very-diet, but yummy nonetheless, ice cream (S2 to S5) and whopping servings of mixed fruit (S3) – with ice cream.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:diet.
- (informal, figurative) Having certain traits subtracted.
- Synonym: lite
- You folks reduce it to the bible only as being authoritative, impoverishing the faith. "Christianity Lite", diet Christianity for those who can't handle the Whole Meal.
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Etymology 2 edit
From Middle English dieten, dyeten, diȝeten, from Old French dïeter and Medieval Latin diētāre.
Verb edit
diet (third-person singular simple present diets, present participle dieting, simple past and past participle dieted)
- (transitive) To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
- they will diet themselves, feed and live alone.
- 1887, Medical Press and Circular, volume 94, page 461:
- When all signs of effusion, dulness, pain, œgophony, and cough had disappeared he was dieted, stimulated, and tonicked.
- 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 45:
- As illustrating the belief that the Baptism by Blood was accompanied by a real regeneration of the devotee, Frazer quotes an ancient writer who says that for some time after the ceremony the fiction of a new birth was kept up by dieting the devotee on milk, like a new-born babe.
- (intransitive) To modify one's food and beverage intake so as to decrease or increase body weight or influence health.
- I've been dieting for six months, and have lost some weight.
- (obsolete) To eat; to take one's meals.
- 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Travel”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
- Let him […] diet in such places, where there is good company of the nation, where he travelleth.
- (obsolete, transitive) To cause to take food; to feed.
- c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- But partly led to diet my revenge […] .
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Etymology 3 edit
From Middle English diet, dyet, from Old French diete, from Medieval Latin diēta, diaeta (“a public assembly; set day of trial; a day's journey”), from Ancient Greek δῐ́αιτα (díaita, “way of living, living space; decision, judgement”), influenced by Latin diēs (“day”).
Noun edit
diet (plural diets)
- (usually capitalized as a proper noun) A council or assembly of leaders; a formal deliberative assembly.
- They were given representation of some important diet committees.
- The National Diet of Japan
- (Scotland) A session of exams
- “Coronavirus: School exam timetable could be put back next year”, in BBC News website[2], BBC, 2020 June 14, retrieved 23 June 20
- Normally the diet begins towards the end of April.
- “Coronavirus: School exam timetable could be put back next year”, in BBC News website[2], BBC, 2020 June 14, retrieved 23 June 20
- (Scots law) A criminal proceeding in court.
- (Scotland) A clerical or ecclesiastical function in Scotland.
- a diet of worship
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Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Revival by Flemish nationalists of Middle Dutch diet (“people, folk”), from Proto-West Germanic *þeudu, from Proto-Germanic *þeudō, from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂. Compare Diets (“Dutch, German”).
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diet n (uncountable)
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Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
Internationalism, borrowed from English diet, from Middle English diet, dyet, diete, from Old French diete, from Medieval Latin dieta (“regimen, regulation; assembly”), from Latin diaeta, from Ancient Greek δίαιτα (díaita).
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Noun edit
diét (plural diet-diet, first-person possessive dietku, second-person possessive dietmu, third-person possessive dietnya)
- diet:
- the food and beverage a person or animal consumes; any habitual intake or consumption.
- a controlled regimen of food and drink, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health.
- Synonym: pemakanan
Derived terms edit
- diet Atkins
- diet bebas jerawat
- diet dadakan
- diet detoks
- diet Dukan
- diet GM
- diet Hay
- diet karbohidrat rendah
- diet ketogenik
- diet kombinasi
- diet lengkap
- diet makanan mentah
- diet makrobiotik
- diet mediterania
- diet murni
- diet paleo
- diet panjang umur
- diet pemulihan
- diet praktis
- diet rendah kolesterol
- diet semimurni
- diet suplemen
- diet yoyo
Further reading edit
- “diet” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Latvian edit
Verb edit
diet (?? missing information, 1st conjugation, present deju, dej, dej, past deju)
Conjugation edit
INDICATIVE (īstenības izteiksme) | IMPERATIVE (pavēles izteiksme) | ||||
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Present (tagadne) |
Past (pagātne) |
Future (nākotne) | |||
1st pers. sg. | es | deju | deju | diešu | — |
2nd pers. sg. | tu | dej | deji | diesi | dej |
3rd pers. sg. | viņš, viņa | dej | deja | dies | lai dej |
1st pers. pl. | mēs | dejam | dejām | diesim | diesim |
2nd pers. pl. | jūs | dejat | dejāt | diesiet, diesit |
dejiet |
3rd pers. pl. | viņi, viņas | dej | deja | dies | lai dej |
RENARRATIVE (atstāstījuma izteiksme) | PARTICIPLES (divdabji) | ||||
Present | dejot | Present Active 1 (Adj.) | dejošs | ||
Past | esot dejis | Present Active 2 (Adv.) | diedams | ||
Future | diešot | Present Active 3 (Adv.) | dejot | ||
Imperative | lai dejot | Present Active 4 (Obj.) | dejam | ||
CONDITIONAL (vēlējuma izteiksme) | Past Active | dejis | |||
Present | dietu | Present Passive | dejams | ||
Past | būtu dejis | Past Passive | diets | ||
DEBITIVE (vajadzības izteiksme) | NOMINAL FORMS | ||||
Indicative | (būt) jādej | Infinitive (nenoteiksme) | diet | ||
Conjunctive 1 | esot jādej | Negative Infinitive | nediet | ||
Conjunctive 2 | jādejot | Verbal noun | diešana |
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Middle Dutch edit
Contraction edit
diet
Middle Irish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Medieval Latin diēta (“daily allowance, regulation, daily order”), from Ancient Greek δίαιτα (díaita).
Noun edit
diet f
Mutation edit
Middle Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
diet | diet pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/, later /ɣ(ʲ)-/ |
ndiet |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading edit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “diet”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Northern Sami edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Samic *tietë.
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Determiner edit
diet
- that (near the listener)
Inflection edit
Pronominal inflection | ||
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Nominative | diet | |
Genitive | dien | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | diet | diet |
Accusative | dien | dieid |
Genitive | dien | dieid |
Illative | diesa | dieidda |
Locative | dies | diein |
Comitative | dieinna | dieiguin |
Essive | dienin |
Further reading edit
- Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages[3], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Alternative forms edit
Verb edit
diet
- simple past and past participle of die
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English diet. Doublet of dieta.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
diet (invariable)
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Swedish edit
Etymology edit
From Old French diete.
Noun edit
diet c
- a diet
Declension edit
Declension of diet | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | diet | dieten | dieter | dieterna |
Genitive | diets | dietens | dieters | dieternas |
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Zhuang edit
Etymology edit
From Chinese 鐵 (MC thet). Doublet of lek and lik.
Pronunciation edit
- (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /tiːt˧˥/
- Tone numbers: diet7
- Hyphenation: diet
Noun edit
diet (1957–1982 spelling diet)