nutriture

English

Etymology

Latin nutritura.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnjuːtɹɪtjʊə(ɹ)/, /ˈnjuːtɹɪt͡ʃə(ɹ)/

Noun

nutriture (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) nutrition; nourishment
   • 1672, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions:

     Never make a meal of flesh alone, have some other meat with it of less nutriture.

   • 1834, Sir Egerton Brydges, The Autobiography, Times, Opinions, and Contemporaries of Sir Egerton Brydges, page 383:

     The solitary life of Haller in his old age was very triste: the nutriture of his mind lay in the letters of the learned, and in his immense library .

   • 1840 March, “On the Nutriture of Intoxicating Liquors”, in The London tee-total magazine, and literary miscellany, volume 1, number 1, page 96:

     That the prejudice, happily for Britain, much less popular, now, than it was a few years since, which attributes to intoxicating liquors, generally, a pre-eminent nutriture, is a warmly controverted point, the reader need not be told.

2. The process of digesting and absorbing specified nutrients through diet.
   • 1971, Iodine Nutriture in the United States:

     The program was designed ( a ) to provide evidence concerning the status of iodine nutriture in the United States and the extent of iodine deficiency, ( b ) to examine the efficacy of existing methods of preventing iodine deficiency and, especially, why iodization sometimes fails, ( c ) to explore possible changes in methodology of iodization and ( d ) to determine if there are causes of goiter in the United States other than iodine deficiency.

   • 1976, Alvin M. Mauer, Iron Nutriture in Adolescence, page 3:

     Thus, in any consideration of the iron nutriture of adolescents, biological variability must be taken into account.

   • 1982 ·, Lu Ann Langham, Biochemical Assessment of Riboflavin Nutriture Utilizing a Radiometric Assay of Pyridoxamine (pyridoxine) 5'-phosphate Oxidase, page 89:

     What range of coenzym saturation is indicative of adequate vitamin nutriture?

   • 2002, Edward J. Massaro, John M. Rogers, Folate and Human Development, page 228:

     A negative association between copper nutriture and fetal growth was found in four studies.

Latin

Participle

nūtrītūre

1. vocative masculine singular of nūtrītūrus