nutrient

See also: nutriënt

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nūtriēns, present participle of nūtriō (“I suckle, nourish, foster”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈnjuː.tɹi.ənt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈnuː.tɹi.ənt/

Noun

nutrient (plural nutrients)

1. A source of nourishment, such as food, that can be metabolized by an organism to give energy and build tissue.
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     Even second-generation biofuels, made from crop wastes or wood, are an environmental disaster, either extending the cultivated area or removing the straw and stovers which protect the soil from erosion and keep carbon and nutrients in the ground.

Synonyms

• nutriment

Derived terms

• antinutrient
• conutrient
• essential nutrient
• glyconutrient
• immunonutrient
• macronutrient
• micronutrient
• multinutrient
• neuronutrient
• nonnutrient
• nutraceutical
• nutrient neutrality
• nutritarian
• oligonutrient
• pharmaconutrient
• phytonutrient
• supernutrient

Translations

substance that provides nourishment

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 養分 / 养分 (zh) (yǎngfèn)

• Czech: živina (cs) f
• Danish: næringsstof (da) n
• Dutch: voedingsstof (nl) c, nutriënt (nl) c or n
• Finnish: ravinne (fi), ravintoaine (fi)
• French: nutriment (fr) m
• Galician: nutriente (gl) m
• German: Nährstoff (de) m
• Greek: θρεπτικό συστατικό n (threptikó systatikó)
• Hungarian: tápanyag (hu)
• Indonesian: gizi (id), nutrien
• Italian: nutriente (it) m, principe nutritivo m
• Japanese: 栄養 (ja) (えいよう ēyō), 栄養素 (ja) (えいようそ ēyōso)
• Kazakh: жұғым (jūğym)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: xurek (ku), xwirak (ku)

• Macedonian: хра́нлива со́стојка f (hránliva sóstojka)
• Maori: taiora, matūkai
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: næringsstoff n

  Nynorsk: næringsstoff n

• Polish: składnik odżywczy m
• Portuguese: nutriente (pt) m
• Russian: пита́тельное вещество́ n (pitátelʹnoje veščestvó)
• Spanish: nutriente (es) m
• Swedish: näringsämne (sv) n
• Tagalog: kapaniya, sustansya (tl)
• Thai: สารอาหาร (sǎan-aa-hǎan)
• Turkish: besin (tr)
• Vietnamese: chất dinh dưỡng, dưỡng chất
• Welsh: maetholyn m
• Zazaki: cem (diq) c

Adjective

nutrient (comparative more nutrient, superlative most nutrient)

1. Providing nourishment.

Translations

providing nourishment

• Arabic: (indefinite) مُغَذٍّ (muḡaḏḏin), (definite) المُغَذِّي (al-muḡaḏḏī)
• Bulgarian: хранителен (bg) (hranitelen)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Danish: nærende, næringsrig
• Dutch: voedsel (nl), voedingsmiddel (nl) n
• Finnish: ravitseva (fi)
• French: nutritif (fr)
• German: nahrhaft (de)
• Macedonian: хра́нлив (hránliv)
• Russian: пита́тельный (ru) (pitátelʹnyj)
• Swedish: närande (sv)
• Turkish: besleyici (tr)

Related terms

• nourish
• nourishment
• nurse
• nursery
• nutriment
• nutrition
• nutritional
• nutritious
• nutritive

Further reading

• “nutrient”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “nutrient”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin nūtrientem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [nu.tɾiˈen]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [nu.tɾiˈent]

Noun

nutrient m (plural nutrients)

1. nutrient

Related terms

• nodrir

Further reading

• “nutrient”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April
• “nutrient”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “nutrient” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

Latin

Verb

nūtrient

1. third-person plural future active indicative of nūtriō