different between nutrition vs alimentary

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: nyo?o-tr??-sh?n, IPA^(key): /nju??t??.??n/
• (US) enPR: no?o-tr??-sh?n, IPA^(key): /nu?t??.??n/
• Rhymes: -???n

Noun

nutrition (usually uncountable, plural nutritions)

1. (biology) The organic process by which an organism assimilates food and uses it for growth and maintenance.
2. That which nourishes; nutriment.

Derived terms

• nutritional
• nutritionalist
• nutritionally
• nutritionism
• nutritionist

Related terms

• nutrient
• nutritious
• nutriture

Translations

See also

• nutrition on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin n?tr?ti?, n?tr?ti?nem, from Latin n?tri?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ny.t?i.sj??/

Noun

nutrition f (plural nutritions)

1. nutrition

Related terms

• nourrir

Further reading

• “nutrition” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Interlingua

Noun

nutrition (uncountable)

1. nutrition

English

Etymology

From aliment (“food”) +? -ary.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æl??m?nt(?)?i/

Adjective

alimentary (comparative more alimentary, superlative most alimentary)

1. Of, or relating to food, nutrition or digestion.
   • 2014, Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, ?ISBN, p. 6

     Like Malthus and Young, [Ricardo] could not imagine that humankind would ever be totally freed from the alimentary imperative.

2. Nourishing; nutritious.

Derived terms

• alimentary canal

Related terms

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