kilocalorie

English

Etymology

kilo- +‎ calorie

Pronunciation

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Noun

kilocalorie (plural kilocalories)

1. A non-SI unit of energy equal to 1,000 calories, used (now rare) in chemistry or physics; equal to 1 calorie as used in nutrition. Symbol kcal.

Usage notes

This prefix kilo- is generally applied to the small calorie, and not to the large calorie used in nutrition, to avoid confusion because 1,000 food calories would be 1,000,000 small calories.

Translations

unit of measure

• Catalan: quilocaloria f, kilocaloria f
• Chinese: 大卡 (zh) (dàkǎ)
• French: kilocalorie (fr) f, grande calorie (fr) f
• Galician: quilocaloría f
• German: Kilokalorie f
• Hungarian: kilokalória (hu)
• Icelandic: kílókaloría f
• Italian: kilocaloria f, chilocaloria (it) f
• Polish: kilokaloria (pl) f
• Portuguese: quilocaloria (pt) f, grande-caloria f
• Spanish: kilocaloría f, quilocaloría (es) m
• Zazaki: kilokalori m

French

Noun

kilocalorie f (plural kilocalories)

1. kilocalorie

Further reading

• “kilocalorie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Noun

kilocalorie f

1. plural of kilocaloria

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French kilocalorie. By surface analysis, kilo- +‎ calorie.

Noun

kilocalorie f (plural kilocalorii)

1. kilocalorie

Declension

Declension of kilocalorie

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(o) kilocalorie	kilocaloria	(niște) kilocalorii	kilocaloriile
genitive/dative	(unei) kilocalorii	kilocaloriei	(unor) kilocalorii	kilocaloriilor
vocative	kilocalorie, kilocalorio		kilocaloriilor