vitamin
English
Etymology
1920, originally vitamine (1912), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin vīta (“life”) (see vital) + amine (see amino acids). Vitamine coined by Polish biochemist Casimir Funk after the initial discovery of aberic acid (thiamine), when it was thought that all such nutrients would be amines.[1] The term had become ubiquitous by the time it was discovered that vitamin C, among others, had no amine component. In 1920, British biochemist Jack Drummond proposed that the final -e be dropped to deemphasize the amine reference. The ending -in was acceptable because it was used for neutral substances of undefined composition. Drummond also introduced the lettering system of nomenclature (Vitamin A, B, C, etc.) at this same time.
Pronunciation
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Noun
vitamin (plural vitamins)
- Any of a specific group of organic compounds essential in small quantities for healthy human growth, metabolism, development, and body function; found in minute amounts in plant and animal foods or sometimes produced synthetically; deficiencies of specific vitamins produce specific disorders.
Hyponyms
- See also Thesaurus:vitamin
Derived terms
Translations
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See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 “vitamin”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 “vitamin”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- ^ Cambridge Dictionaries Online
Danish
Pronunciation
Noun
vitamin n (singular definite vitaminet, plural indefinite vitaminer)
Declension
neuter gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | vitamin | vitaminet | vitaminer | vitaminerne |
genitive | vitamins | vitaminets | vitaminers | vitaminernes |
Related terms
- A-vitamin, B-vitamin, C-vitamin, D-vitamin, E-vitamin, K-vitamin
- multivitamin
- provitamin
- vitaminholdig
- vitaminisere
Further reading
- “vitamin” in Den Danske Ordbog
- vitamin on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
Hungarian
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] English vitamin.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
vitamin (plural vitaminok)
Declension
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | vitamin | vitaminok |
accusative | vitamint | vitaminokat |
dative | vitaminnak | vitaminoknak |
instrumental | vitaminnal | vitaminokkal |
causal-final | vitaminért | vitaminokért |
translative | vitaminná | vitaminokká |
terminative | vitaminig | vitaminokig |
essive-formal | vitaminként | vitaminokként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | vitaminban | vitaminokban |
superessive | vitaminon | vitaminokon |
adessive | vitaminnál | vitaminoknál |
illative | vitaminba | vitaminokba |
sublative | vitaminra | vitaminokra |
allative | vitaminhoz | vitaminokhoz |
elative | vitaminból | vitaminokból |
delative | vitaminról | vitaminokról |
ablative | vitamintól | vitaminoktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
vitaminé | vitaminoké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
vitaminéi | vitaminokéi |
Possessive forms of vitamin | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | vitaminom | vitaminjaim |
2nd person sing. | vitaminod | vitaminjaid |
3rd person sing. | vitaminja | vitaminjai |
1st person plural | vitaminunk | vitaminjaink |
2nd person plural | vitaminotok | vitaminjaitok |
3rd person plural | vitaminjuk | vitaminjaik |
Derived terms
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References
- ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
Japanese
Romanization
vitamin
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
vitamin n (definite singular vitaminet, indefinite plural vitamin or vitaminer, definite plural vitamina or vitaminene)
- a vitamin
References
- “vitamin” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
vitamin n (definite singular vitaminet, indefinite plural vitamin, definite plural vitamina)
- a vitamin
References
- “vitamin” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
- English terms derived from Latin
- English terms with audio links
- English 3-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Vitamins
- Danish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Danish lemmas
- Danish nouns
- Danish neuter nouns
- Hungarian terms derived from English
- Hungarian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Hungarian lemmas
- Hungarian nouns
- Japanese non-lemma forms
- Japanese romanizations
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål nouns
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