Where does “nutrition” come from?
Nutrition comes from Middle French nutrition, from Old French nutricion, from Latin nutritio, meaning the process of nourishing or feeding.
nutrition (English): The organic process by which an organism...
Definitions
- The organic process by which an organism...
Ancestry of “nutrition”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | nutrition | — |
| 2 | Old French | nutricion | — |
| 3 | Latin | nūtrītiō | nutrition |
| 4 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 5 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 6 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 7 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 8 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 9 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 10 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 11 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |
Words derived from “nutrition”
- nutritional
- malnutrition
- nutritionally
- nutritionist
- undernutrition
- overnutrition
- nutrigenomics
- antinutritional
- immunonutrition
- innutrition
- nutriceutical
- denutrition
- nutritionless
- nutritionalist
- supernutrition
- malnutritional
- nooch
- micronutritional
- micronutrition
- hyponutrition
- nutritionism
- nutritionwise
- nutritarian
- pseudonutrition