dietary

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin diētārius, from Latin diaetārius, from diaeta + -ārius.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪətɹi/, /ˈdaɪəˌtɛɹi/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Adjective

dietary (not comparable)

1. Of, or relating to diet.

   If you have any dietary requirements, please inform the kitchen staff.

2. Comprising a food source.
   • 2016 January 21, “Choose Your Weaponry: Selective Storage of a Single Toxic Compound, Latrunculin A, by Closely Related Nudibranch Molluscs”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     For example, the antitumour depsipeptide kahalalide F was isolated from the opisthobranch mollusc Elysia rufescens, and is used by both the mollusc and its dietary alga Bryopsis spp.

Derived terms

• dietarily
• dietary fiber
• dietary fibre
• dietary indiscretion
• dietary supplement

 

Translations

of, or relating to diet

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: дыеты́чны (dyjetýčny)
• Bengali: পরহেজী (bn) (pôrhezī)
• Bulgarian: диетичен (dietičen)
• Catalan: dietètic
• Danish: diæt-, kost-, diætetisk
• Dutch: diëtair
• Finnish: ruokavalio-, ruoka-, ruokailu-
• French: diététique (fr), alimentaire (fr)
• German: diätisch
• Greek: please add this translation if you can
• Hebrew: תזונתי m (tzunatí)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: étrendi, diétás (hu), étkezési (hu)
• Interlingua: dietari
• Italian: dietetico (it), alimentare (it)
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: dietetyczny (pl)
• Portuguese: dietético (pt)
• Russian: диети́ческий (ru) (dijetíčeskij)
• Spanish: dietético, alimentario (es)
• Swahili: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: diet-, dietisk
• Ukrainian: дієти́чний (dijetýčnyj)
• Vietnamese: chế độ ăn uống
• Zulu: please add this translation if you can

Noun

dietary (plural dietaries)

1. (UK, dated) A regulated diet.
   • 1837 February, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], “Treats of Oliver Twist’s Growth, Education, and Board”, in Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], published 1838, →OCLC, page 30:

     “[…] Do I understand that he asked for more, after he had eaten the supper allotted by the dietary?” “He did, sir,” replied Bumble. “That boy will be hung,” said the gentleman in the white waistcoat; “I know that boy will be hung.” Nobody controverted the prophetic gentleman’s opinion.