Definitions and meaning of diet
diet
English
Alternative forms
- diët (rare)
- diate (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdaɪət/
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- IPA(key): /ˈdaɪət/, /ˈdiːət/ (deliberative assembly)
- Rhymes: -aɪət, -iːət
Etymology 1
From Middle English diet, dyet, diete, from Old French diete, from Medieval Latin dieta (“regimen, regulation; assembly”), from Latin diaeta, from Ancient Greek δίαιτα (díaita).
Noun
diet (plural diets)
- The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.
- (countable) A controlled regimen of food and drink choices, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health.
- (by extension) Any habitual intake or consumption.
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
Adjective
diet (not comparable)
- (of a food or beverage) Containing less fat, salt, sugar, or calories than normal, or claimed to have such.
- diet soda
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- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:diet.
- (informal, figurative) Having certain traits subtracted.
- Synonym: lite
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English dieten, dyeten, diȝeten, from Old French dïeter and Medieval Latin diētāre.
Verb
diet (third-person singular simple present diets, present participle dieting, simple past and past participle dieted)
- (transitive) To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet.
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- they will diet themselves, feed and live alone.
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- (intransitive) To modify one's food and beverage intake so as to decrease or increase body weight or influence health.
- (obsolete) To eat; to take one's meals.
- (obsolete, transitive) To cause to take food; to feed.
Translations
Etymology 3
From Middle English diet, dyet, from Old French diete, from Medieval Latin diēta, diaeta (“a public assembly; set day of trial; a day's journey”), from Ancient Greek δῐ́αιτα (dĭ́aita, “way of living, living space; decision, judgement”), influenced by Latin diēs (“day”).
Noun
diet (plural diets)
- (usually capitalized as a proper noun) A council or assembly of leaders; a formal deliberative assembly.
- They were given representation of some important diet committees.
- The National Diet of Japan
- (Scotland) A session of exams
- “Coronavirus: School exam timetable could be put back next year”, in BBC News website[2], BBC, 2020 June 14, retrieved 23 June 20
- Normally the diet begins towards the end of April.
- (Scots law) A criminal proceeding in court.
- (Scotland) A clerical or ecclesiastical function in Scotland.
- a diet of worship
Derived terms
Translations
Anagrams
- -tide, dite, edit, edit., tide, tied
Dutch
Etymology
Revival by Flemish nationalists of Middle Dutch diet (“people, folk”), from Proto-West Germanic *þeudu, from Proto-Germanic *þeudō, from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂. Compare Diets (“Dutch, German”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dit/
- Hyphenation: diet
- Rhymes: -it
Noun
diet n (uncountable)
- (archaic) folk, people
- (Belgium, archaic) the combined Flemish, Dutch and Afrikaner people
Related terms
- diedenweg, diets maken
- Diets, Dietsland, Platdiets
- beduiden, duiden, duidelijk, verduidelijken
- Duits, Duitsland, Nederduits
Indonesian
Etymology
Internationalism, borrowed from English diet, from Middle English diet, dyet, diete, from Old French diete, from Medieval Latin dieta (“regimen, regulation; assembly”), from Latin diaeta, from Ancient Greek δίαιτα (díaita).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈdiet/ [ˈdi.ɛt̪̚]
- Rhymes: -et
- Syllabification: di‧et
Noun
diét (plural diet-diet)
- diet
- Synonym: pemakanan (Malay)
Verb
diét
- to diet
- Synonym: (chiefly formal) berdiet
Derived terms
Further reading
- “diet” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Latvian
Verb
diet (?? missing information, 1st conjugation, present deju, dej, dej, past deju)
- to dance (archaic)
Conjugation
Synonyms
- dejot
- dancot
- griezt danci
- pamest līku kāju
Middle Dutch
Contraction
diet
- contraction of die dat
- contraction of die het
Middle Irish
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin diēta (“daily allowance, regulation, daily order”), from Ancient Greek δίαιτα (díaita).
Noun
diet f
- diet, régime; dieting
Mutation
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “diet”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Northern Sami
Etymology
From Proto-Samic *tietë.
Pronunciation
- (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈtie̯h(t)/
Determiner
diet
- that (near the listener)
Inflection
Further reading
- Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages[3], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
Verb
diet
- simple past and past participle of die
Old English
Pronunciation
Verb
dīet
- third-person singular present indicative of dīedan
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English diet. Doublet of dieta.
Pronunciation
Adjective
diet (invariable)
- (of food or beverage) diet (containing lower-than-normal amounts of calories)
- Synonym: dietético
See also
Swedish
Etymology
From Old French diete.
Noun
diet c
- a diet
Declension
Related terms
- 5:2-diet
- dietist
- dietspecialist
See also
References
- diet in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- diet in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- diet in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
Anagrams
Zhuang
Etymology
From Chinese 鐵 (MC thet). Doublet of lek and lik.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /tiːt˧˥/
- Tone numbers: diet7
- Hyphenation: diet
Noun
diet (1957–1982 spelling diet)
- iron (metal)
- Synonyms: (dialectal) lek, (dialectal) lik, (dialectal) faz
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