vitamin

See also: Vitamin and vitamín

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. 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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• IPA^(key): /ˈvɪt.ə.mɪn/
• IPA^(key): /ˈvaɪ.tə.mɪn/, [ˈvʌɪ.ɾə.mɪn]
• IPA^(key): /ˈvɑet.ə.mən/

Noun

vitamin (plural vitamins)

1. 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

terms derived from "vitamin"

• vitamer
• vitaminic
• vitaminize

• vitamin A
  • vitamin A acid
• vitamin B
  • vitamin B complex, vitamin B_c, vitamin B₁, vitamin B₂, vitamin B₃, vitamin B₄, vitamin B₅, vitamin B₆, vitamin B₇, vitamin B₉, vitamin B₁₂, vitamin B₁₇
• vitamin C
• vitamin D
  • vitamin D₁, vitamin D₂, vitamin D₃, vitamin D₄, vitamin D₅

• vitamin E
• vitamin F (obsolete)
• vitamin G
• vitamin H
• vitamin J (obsolete)
• vitamin K
  • vitamin K₁, vitamin K₂
• vitamin M
• vitamin P
• vitamin R (slang)
• vitamin V (slang)

Translations

organic compound essential to human health

• Albanian: vitaminë (sq) f
• Arabic: فِيتَامِين m (fitamīn)
• Armenian: վիտամին (hy) (vitamin)
• Azerbaijani: vitamin (az)
• Belarusian: вітамі́н m (vitamín)
• Bengali: ভিটামিন (bhiṭamin)
• Bulgarian: витами́н m (vitamín)
• Burmese: ဗီတာမင် (my) (bitamang)
• Catalan: vitamina (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 維他命／维他命 (wai⁴ taa¹ ming⁶), 维他命 (wai⁴ taa¹ ming⁶), 維生素／维生素 (wai⁴ sang¹ sou³), 维生素 (wai⁶ sang¹ sou³)

  Hakka: 維他命／维他命, 维他命 (vî-tha-mín)

  Mandarin: 維生素／维生素 (zh) (wéishēngsù), 维生素 (zh) (wéishēngsù), 維他命／维他命 (zh) (wéitāmìng), 维他命 (zh) (wéitāmìng)

  Min Dong: 維生素／维生素 (mì-sĕng-só), 维生素 (mì-sĕng-só), 維他命／维他命 (mì-tă-mêng), 维他命 (mì-tă-mêng)

  Min Nan: 維生素／维生素 (zh-min-nan), 维生素 (ûi-seng-sò͘ / ûi-sng-sò͘ / î-sng-sò͘ / î-seng-sò͘), 維他命／维他命, 维他命 (ûi-tha-bēng), bi-tá-bín

  Wu: 維生素／维生素 (⁶vi-sen-su), 维生素 (vi sen su), 維他命／维他命 (⁶vi-tha-min), 维他命 (vi tha min)

• Czech: vitamín (cs) m
• Danish: vitamin n
• Dhivehi: ވިޓަމިން (viṭamin̊)
• Dutch: vitamine (nl) c
• Estonian: vitamiin
• Finnish: vitamiini (fi)
• French: vitamine (fr) f
• Galician: vitamina (gl) f
• Georgian: ვიტამინი (viṭamini)
• German: Vitamin (de) n
• Greek: βιταμίνη (el) f (vitamíni)
• Gujarati: પ્રજીવક (prajīvak)
• Hebrew: וִיטָמִין (he) m (vitamin)
• Hindi: विटामिन m (viṭāmin)
• Hungarian: vitamin (hu)
• Icelandic: vítamín n, fjörefni n
• Indonesian: vitamin (id)
• Irish: vitimín m
• Italian: vitamina (it) f
• Japanese: ビタミン (ja) (bitamin)
• Kazakh: дәрумен (kk) (därumen)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Khmer: ជីវជាតិ (km) (ciivĕəʼciət), វីតាមីន (km) (viitaamiin)
• Korean: 비타민 (ko) (bitamin)
• Kyrgyz: витамин (ky) (vitamin)
• Lao: ວິຕາມິນ (lo) (wi tā min), ຢາມີແຮງ (yā mī hǣng)
• Latvian: vitamīns (lv) m
• Lithuanian: vitaminas m
• Macedonian: витами́н m (vitamín)
• Malay: vitamin
• Malayalam: ജീവകം (ml) (jīvakaṁ)
• Maori: huaora
• Mongolian: витамин (mn) (vitamin), аминдэм (mn) (amindem)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vitamin (no) n

  Nynorsk: vitamin n

• Persian: ویتامین (fa) (vitâmin)
• Polish: witamina (pl) f
• Portuguese: vitamina (pt) f
• Romanian: vitamină (ro) f
• Russian: витами́н (ru) m (vitamín)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: витамин m

  Roman: vitamin m

• Sinhalese: විටමින් (wiṭamin)
• Slovak: vitamín m
• Slovene: vitamin (sl) m
• Spanish: vitamina (es) f
• Swahili: vitamini (sw)
• Swedish: vitamin (sv) c
• Tagalog: bitamina
• Tajik: витамин (vitamin)
• Thai: วิตามิน (th) (wí-dtaa-min), ไวตามิน (wai-dtaa-min)
• Turkmen: witamin
• Ukrainian: вітамі́н m (vitamín)
• Urdu: وٹامن m (viṭāmin)
• Uyghur: ۋىتامىن (ug) (witamin)
• Uzbek: vitamin (uz)
• Vietnamese: sinh tố (vi), vi ta min (vi)
• Yiddish: וויטאַמין (vitamin)

(attributive use of the noun)

• Galician: vitamínico
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Spanish: vitamínico

See also

• vitamer

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Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vitamiːn/, [vitˢaˈmiːˀn]

Noun

vitamin n (singular definite vitaminet, plural indefinite vitaminer)

1. vitamin

Declension

Declension of vitamin

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

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Hungarian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] English vitamin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvitɒmin]
• Hyphenation: vi‧ta‧min

Noun

vitamin (plural vitaminok)

1. vitamin

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	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
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

• vitaminos

(Compound words):

• A-vitamin
• B-vitamin
• C-vitamin
• D-vitamin
• vitamindús
• vitaminhiány
• vitaminszegény

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Japanese

Romanization

vitamin

1. Rōmaji transcription of ヸタミン

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

vitamin n (definite singular vitaminet, indefinite plural vitamin or vitaminer, definite plural vitamina or vitaminene)

1. a vitamin

References

• “vitamin” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

vitamin n (definite singular vitaminet, indefinite plural vitamin, definite plural vitamina)

1. a vitamin

References

• “vitamin” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.