Vegetarian
English
Etymology
vegetable + -arian; popularized following 1847 foundation of British Vegetarian Society. (Alternatively, it may derive from vegetus + -arian.)
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɛəriən
Noun
Vegetarian (usually uncountable, plural Vegetarians)
- Obsolete spelling of vegetarian.
- 1886, Henry Stephens Salt, A Plea for Vegetarianism and Other Essays, page 7:
- “I must preface this essay by the confession that I am myself a Vegetarian, and that I mean to say all the good I can of the principles of Vegetarianism.”
Usage notes
This capitalization only applied to the noun; the adjective took the lowercase vegetarian.