postprandial

English

WOTD – 13 May 2006

Alternative forms

• post-prandial

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *pós

Proto-Indo-European *-ti

Proto-Indo-European *pósti

Proto-Italic *posti

Old Latin poste

Latin post

English post-

English prandial

English postprandial

From post- + prandial.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌpəʊs(t)ˈpɹan.dɪ.əl/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌpoʊs(t)ˈpɹæn.di.əl/

• Audio (General American):

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• Hyphenation: post‧prand‧ial

Adjective

postprandial (not comparable)

1. After a meal, especially after dinner.

   Synonyms: (rare) postcibal, postmeal

   Antonyms: (rare) precibal, premeal, preprandial

   postprandial somnolence ― food coma

   • 1894, George Augustus Sala, “The Real Thackeray”, in Things I Have Seen and People I Have Known […], volume I, London; Paris: Cassell and Company […], →OCLC, page 32:

     As a post-prandial speaker, however, Thackeray was undeniably the reverse of felicitous.

   • 1948 August, Aldous Huxley, “The Script”, in Ape and Essence, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 135:

     The Arch-Vicar is picking his teeth. There is a comfortable, postprandial silence.

   • 2007, Margarita de Veciana, Arthur T. Evans, “Endocrine Disorders: Diabetes”, in Arthur T. Evans, editor, Manual of Obstetrics, 7th edition, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, →ISBN, page 285:

     Patients who demonstrate significant insulin resistance at diagnosis and require insulin therapy may alternate preprandial and postprandial evaluations to enable more rapid optimization of control by using an additional supplemental insulin sliding scale as needed to cover preprandial hyperglycaemia (>100 ml per dl) […].

   • 2010, Johannes Zschocke, “Function Tests”, in Georg F. Hoffmann, Johannes Zschocke, William L[eo] Nyhan, editors, Inherited Metabolic Diseases: A Clinical Approach, Heidelberg: Springer, →DOI, →ISBN, page 347, column 1:

     The standardized analysis of metabolic parameters in the preprandial and postprandial state may provide important functional clues for the diagnosis of metabolic disorders.

   • 2014 May 6, Nicholas Shakespeare, “Twin Tracks by Roger Bannister”, in The Daily Telegraph‎^[1]:

     Intimate, discreet and modestly quite proud of itself, it [the book] has the tone of the postprandial speech that Bannister gave at Pembroke College to 120 of his friends, looking over his life, like the portrait on the panelled walls of himself as Master.

   • 2015, “Answers”, in Kathleen P. Freeman, Stefanie Klenner, editors, Veterinary Clinical Pathology: A Case-based Approach, Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, →ISBN, page 132:

     The slight increase in pre-prandial and post-prandial bile acids are suggestive of hepatic dysfunction, but other causes of slight elevations, such as pancreatic or gastrointestinal disease, cannot be ruled out.

   • 2020 May 25, Abby Ellin, “Couples Who Eat Together May Not Stay Together”, in New York Times‎^[2]:

     But the most egregious transgression, at least in her opinion, is his postprandial habit of chomping and crunching on nuts.

Derived terms

• idiopathic postprandial syndrome
• postprandial dip
• postprandially

Related terms

• preprandially
• prandial

Translations

after a meal

• Bulgarian: следобеден (sledobeden)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 飯後的 / 饭后的 (fànhòude), 餐後的 / 餐后的 (cānhòude)

• Estonian: söömingujärgne
• Finnish: aterian jälkeinen
• French: après le repas
• Irish: iarphroinne
• Polish: poobiedni (pl)
• Russian: послеобе́денный (ru) (posleobédennyj)
• Spanish: posprandial, de sobremesa (at the table), después de comer

See also

• food coma

References

• “postprandial”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔst.pʁɑ̃.djal/

• Audio (France (Brétigny-sur-Orge)):

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Adjective

postprandial (feminine postprandiale, masculine plural postprandiaux, feminine plural postprandiales)

1. (medicine) postprandial

Romanian

Etymology

From post- +‎ prandial.

Adjective

postprandial m or n (feminine singular postprandială, masculine plural postprandiali, feminine/neuter plural postprandiale)

1. postprandial

Declension

Declension of postprandial

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	postprandial		postprandială	postprandiali	postprandiale
	definite	postprandialul		postprandiala	postprandialii	postprandialele
genitive- dative	indefinite	postprandial		postprandiale	postprandiali	postprandiale
	definite	postprandialului		postprandialei	postprandialilor	postprandialelor

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /posdpɾanˈdjal/ [pozð̞.pɾãn̪ˈd̪jal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: post‧pran‧dial

Adjective

postprandial m or f (masculine and feminine plural postprandiales)

1. postprandial

Further reading

• “postprandial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025