nutrition English · revision 7810

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=before 1425|origins=la nutrio}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /njuːˈtɹɪʃ.ən/, /nuˈtɹɪʃ.ən/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is Middle English nutricioun, [[bor|frm|nutrition]] and directly Late Latin [[m|la-lat|nutritio|alt=nūtrītiō|t=a nourishing]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024) from the past participle stem of [[m|la|nutrio|alt=nūtrīre|t=to nourish, suckle, feed]] (see [[nourish]]),^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(NODE 1998) which Etymonline traces to PIE *(s)neh₂-, to swim, flow, hence to suckle.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The act of nourishing: probably before 1425, in a translation of Chauliac's ''Grande Chirurgie''.^(Barnhart 1988)^(MWU 2024)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Figurative uses are from 1551.^(OED 1989) The process by which organisms absorb food and build it into tissue is from the 1550s in Etymonline and 1615 in the OED.^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989) That which nourishes, food, is from about 1600 (1603).^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989) ''Nutritious'' is from 1665 and ''nutritionist'' from 1926.^(Barnhart 1988) The science of food and nourishment is a modern sense.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * before 1425 – nutricioun.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1551 – figurative use.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1603 – food, nourishment.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1615 – the process of nourishing.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1926 – nutritionist.^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The process by which living things take in [[food]] and use it for growth and repair of tissue.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # The study of food and [[nourishment]], especially in humans.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # Food; a source of nourishment.^(AHD)^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[nutritional]]

+ * [[nutritionally]]

+ * [[hypernutrition]]

+ * [[innutrition]]

+ * [[malnutrition]]

+ * [[overnutrition]]

+ * [[supernutrition]]

+ * [[undernutrition]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[nutrient]]

+ * [[nutritious]]

+ * [[nourish]]

+ * [[nurse]]

+ * [[nurture]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}