kilocalorie

English

Etymology

From kilo- + calorie.

Pronunciation

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Noun

kilocalorie (plural kilocalories)

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

   Synonyms: calorie (large-calorie sense), large calorie, Calorie (capital C), kilogram calorie

   Holonyms: megacalorie < gigacalorie

   Meronyms: calorie (small-calorie sense), small calorie, gram calorie, thermochemical calorie

Usage notes

• This prefix kilo- is applied only 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
• Japanese: キロカロリー (kirokarorī), 大カロリー (daikarorī)
• Korean: 킬로칼로리 (ko) (killokallori)
• Polish: kilokaloria (pl) f
• Portuguese: quilocaloria (pt) f, grande-caloria f
• Spanish: kilocaloría f, quilocaloría (es) m
• Swahili: kilokalori
• 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

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	kilocalorie	kilocaloria	kilocalorii	kilocaloriile
genitive-dative	kilocalorii	kilocaloriei	kilocalorii	kilocaloriilor
vocative	kilocalorie, kilocalorio		kilocaloriilor