different between nutrition vs subsistence

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 Late Latin subsistentia (“substance, reality, in Medieval Latin also stability”), from Latin subsistens, present participle of subsistere (“to continue, subsist”). See subsist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?b?s?st?ns/

Noun

subsistence (countable and uncountable, plural subsistences)

1. Real being; existence.
   • (Can we date this quote by Stillingfleet and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Not only the things had subsistence, but the very images were of some creatures existing.

2. The act of maintaining oneself at a minimum level.
3. Inherency.

4. Something (food, water, money, etc.) that is required to stay alive.
   • (Can we date this quote by Addison and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     His viceroy could only propose to himself a comfortable subsistence out of the plunder of his province.

5. (theology) Embodiment or personification or hypostasis of an underlying principle or quality.

Synonyms

• (real being): See also Thesaurus:existence
• (something required to stay alive): sustenance
• (theology): hypostasis

Related terms

• subsist
• subsistent
• subsistence economy

Translations

Further reading

• subsistence in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• subsistence in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.