different between junta vs diet

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish junta, feminine form of junto, from Latin iunctus, perfect passive participle of iung? (“join”). 1623.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d??nt?/, /?d??nt?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?h?nt?/, /?h?nt?/

Noun

junta (plural juntas)

1. A council, convention, tribunal or assembly; especially, the grand council of state in Spain.
2. The ruling council of a military dictatorship.

Translations

Anagrams

• jantu, jaunt

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /??un.t?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?d??un.ta/

Adjective

junta

1. feminine singular of junt

Polish

Etymology

From Spanish junta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?xun.ta/

Noun

junta f

1. junta (the grand council of state in Spain)
2. (military) junta (ruling council of a military dictatorship)

Declension

Further reading

• junta in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• junta in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /???.t?/

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese junta, from Latin i?ncta, from i?nctus, perfect passive participle of i?ng? (“I join”).

Noun

junta f (plural juntas)

1. (anatomy) joint (part of the body where two bones join)

   Synonym: articulação

2. (collective) task force (group of people working towards a particular task, project, or activity)

   Synonyms: força tarefa, mutirão

3. (collective) council (committee that leads or governs)
4. (collective) team (set of yoked draught animals)

   Synonym: parelha

5. the gap between floor bricks or tiles
6. material used to fill the gap between floor tiles

Derived terms

Related terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adjective

junta

1. feminine singular of junto

Adverb

junta

1. feminine of junto

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

junta

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of juntar

   Ele junta isso.

   He connects/gathers this.

2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of juntar

   Tu aí, junta isso sozinho.

   You there, connect/gather this by yourself.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?xunta/, [?x?n?.t?a]

Etymology 1

Adjective

junta

1. feminine singular of junto

Etymology 2

From juntar, or from Latin iuncta.

Noun

junta f (plural juntas)

1. council, committee
2. joint, gasket
3. meeting (a gathering for a purpose)
4. contact, acquaintances

Descendants

• ? Polish: junta

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

junta

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of juntar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of juntar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of juntar.

Further reading

• “junta” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Alternative forms

• diët (rare)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?da??t/
• Rhymes: -a??t

Etymology 1

From Middle English diet, dyet, diete, from Old French diete, from Medieval Latin dieta (“regimen, regulation; assembly”), from Latin diaeta, from Ancient Greek ?????? (díaita).

Noun

diet (plural diets)

2. The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.
   • 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.

3. (countable) A controlled regimen of food and drink, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health.
4. (by extension) Any habitual intake or consumption.

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

diet (not comparable)

1. (of a food or beverage) Containing less fat, salt, sugar, or calories than normal, or claimed to have such.

   diet soda

   • 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.
2. (informal, figuratively) Having certain traits subtracted.

   Synonym: lite

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English dieten, dyeten, di?eten, from Old French dïeter and Medieval Latin di?t?re.

Verb

diet (third-person singular simple present diets, present participle dieting, simple past and past participle dieted)

1. (transitive) To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet.

   • they will diet themselves, feed and live alone.

2. (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.

3. (obsolete) To eat; to take one's meals.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Travel

     Let him […] diet in such places, where there is good company of the nation, where he travelleth.

4. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to take food; to feed.
   • 1603, William Shakespeare, Othello

     But partly led to diet my revenge […].

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English diet, dyet, from Old French diete, from Medieval Latin di?ta, diaeta (“a public assembly; set day of trial; a day's journey”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (díaita, “way of living, living space; decision, judgement”), influenced by Latin di?s (“day”).

Noun

diet (plural diets)

1. (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.

2. (Scotland) A session of exams
   • “Coronavirus: School exam timetable could be put back next year”, in BBC News website?^[2], BBC, 14 June 20, retrieved 23 June 20

     Normally the diet begins towards the end of April.

3. (Scotland, law) The proceedings under a criminal libel.
4. (Scotland) A clerical or ecclesiastical function in Scotland.

   a diet of worship

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• -tide, dite, edit, edit., tide, tied

Dutch

Etymology

Revival by Flemish nationalists of Middle Dutch diet (“people, folk”), from Proto-West Germanic *þeudu, from Proto-Germanic *þeud?, from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh?. Compare Diets (“Dutch, German”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dit/
• Hyphenation: diet
• Rhymes: -it

Noun

diet n (uncountable)

1. (archaic) folk, people
2. (Belgium, archaic) The Flemish people

Related terms

• diedenweg, diets, Diets
• beduiden, duiden, duidelijk, Duits, verduidelijken

Latvian

Verb

diet (?? missing information., 1st conj., pres. deju, dej, dej, past deju)

1. to dance (archaic)

Declension

Synonyms

• dejot
• dancot
• griezt danci
• pamest l?ku k?ju

Middle Dutch

Contraction

diet

1. Contraction of die dat.
2. Contraction of die het.

Middle Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin di?ta (“daily allowance, regulation, daily order”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (díaita).

Noun

diet f

1. diet, régime; dieting

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “diet”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Northern Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *tietë.

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?tie?h(t)/

Determiner

diet

1. that (near the listener)

Inflection

Further reading

• 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

Alternative forms

• dia

Verb

diet

1. simple past and past participle of die

Portuguese

Etymology

From English diet.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?dajt??/

Adjective

diet (plural diet, comparable)

1. (of food or beverage) diet (containing lower-than-normal amounts of calories)

Related terms

• dieta

See also

• light

Swedish

Etymology

From Old French diete

Noun

diet c

1. a diet

Declension

Related terms

• dietist
• dietspecialist

Anagrams

• Edit

Zhuang

Etymology

From Chinese ? (MC t?et?). Doublet of lek and lik.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /ti?t??/
• Tone numbers: diet⁷
• Hyphenation: diet

Noun

diet (old orthography diet)

1. iron (metal).

   Synonyms: (dialectal) lek, (dialectal) lik, (dialectal) faz