nutrition

See also: Nutrition

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: nyo͞o-trĭshʹ-ən, IPA^(key): /njuːˈtɹɪʃ.ən/
• (US, Canada) enPR: no͞o-trĭshʹ-ən, nyo͞o-trĭshʹ-ən, IPA^(key): /nuˈtɹɪʃ.ən/, /njuˈtɹɪʃ.ən/

  • Audio (US); [njuˈtɹɪʃ.ən]:

    (file)

• (General Australian) enPR: nyo͞o-trĭshʹ-ən, IPA^(key): /njʉːˈtɹɪʃ.ən/
• 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.
   • 1822, John Barclay, chapter I, in An Inquiry Into the Opinions, Ancient and Modern, Concerning Life and Organization‎^[1], Edinburgh, London: Bell & Bradfute; Waugh & Innes; G. & W. B. Whittaker, section I, page 2:

     In the dead state all is apparently without motion. No agent within indicates design, intelligence, or foresight: there is no respiration; no digestion, circulation, or nutrition; […]

   • 2016 September 16, Hailey Middlebrook, “Should you really feed a cold and starve a fever?”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     Proper nutrition – and even more important, proper hydration – is crucial in preventing and recovering from both fevers and colds.

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

• nutritial
• nutritional
• nutritionalist
• nutritionally
• nutritionism
• nutritionist

Related terms

• nutrient
• nutritious
• nutriture

Translations

nutrition

• Albanian: ushqim (sq) m
• Arabic: تَغْذِيَة (ar) f (taḡḏiya), غِذَاء m (ḡiḏāʔ), إِطْعَام m (ʔiṭʕām), اِغْتِذَاء m (iḡtiḏāʔ)
• Armenian: սնուցում (hy) (snucʻum)
• 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)

  Hokkien: 營養 / 营养 (zh-min-nan) (îng-ióng)

  Mandarin: 營養 / 营养 (zh) (yíngyǎng)

• 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 (is) 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) (pōṣaṇaṁ)
• 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)

Further reading

• nutrition on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin nūtrītiōnem, from Latin nūtriōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ny.tʁi.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

  (file)

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.

Interlingua

Noun

nutrition (uncountable)

1. nutrition