nutrient

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nūtriēns, present participle of nūtriō (“I suckle, nourish, foster”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnjuː.tɹi.ənt/
• IPA^(key): /ˈnuː.tɹi.ənt/

Noun

nutrient (plural nutrients)

1. A source of nourishment, such as food, that can be metabolized by an organism to give energy and build tissue.
   • 2012, George Monbiot, Guardian Weekly, August 24, p.20

     Even second-generation biofuels, made from crop wastes or wood, are an environmental disaster, either extending the cultivated area or removing the straw and stovers which protect the soil from erosion and keep carbon and nutrients in the ground.

Synonyms

• nutriment

Translations

substance that provides nourishment

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 養分／养分 (zh) (yǎngfèn), 养分 (zh) (yǎngfèn)

• Czech: živina (cs) f
• Danish: næringsstof (da) n
• Finnish: ravinne (fi), ravintoaine (fi)
• French: nutriment (fr) m
• Galician: nutriente m
• German: Nährstoff (de) m
• Hungarian: tápanyag (hu)
• Indonesian: gizi (id), nutrien
• Italian: nutriente (it) m, principe nutritivo m
• Japanese: 栄養 (ja) (えいよう ēyō), 栄養素 (えいようそ ēyōso)
• Macedonian: хра́нлива со́стојка f (hránliva sóstojka)
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• Maori: taiora, matūkai
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: næringsstoff n

  Nynorsk: næringsstoff n

• Polish: składnik pokarmowy m
• Portuguese: nutriente (pt) m
• Russian: пита́тельное вещество́ n (pitátelʹnoje veščestvó)
• Spanish: nutriente (es) m
• Swedish: näringsämne (sv) n
• Tagalog: kapaniya, sustansya (tl)
• Thai: สารอาหาร (sǎan-aa-hǎan)
• Turkish: besin (tr)

Adjective

nutrient (comparative more nutrient, superlative most nutrient)

1. Providing nourishment.

Translations

providing nourishment

• Arabic: (indefinite) مُغَذٍّ (muḡaḏḏin), (definite) المُغَذِّي (al-muḡaḏḏī)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Danish: nærende, næringsrig
• Dutch: voedsel (nl), voedingsmiddel (nl) n
• Finnish: ravitseva (fi)
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• French: nutritif (fr)
• German: nahrhaft (de)
• Macedonian: хра́нлив (hránliv)
• Russian: пита́тельный (ru) (pitátelʹnyj)
• Swedish: närande (sv)
• Turkish: besleyici (tr)

Related terms

• nourish
• nourishment
• nurse
• nursery
• nutriment
• nutrition
• nutritional
• nutritious
• nutritive

Further reading

• “nutrient”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “nutrient”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nutriens, nutrientem.

Noun

nutrient m (plural nutrients)

1. nutrient

Related terms

• nodrir

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) nūtrient

1. third-person plural future active indicative of nūtriō