diet

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English

Alternative forms

• diët (rare)
• diate (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪət/
• IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪət/, /ˈdiːət/ (legislature)
• 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)

2. The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.
4. (countable) A controlled regimen of food and drink choices, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health.
5. (by extension) Any habitual intake or consumption.

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Japanese: ダイエット

Translations

Adjective

diet (not comparable)

1. (of a food or beverage) Containing less fat, salt, sugar, or calories than normal, or claimed to have such.

   diet soda

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:diet.
2. (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)

1. (transitive) To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet.

   • they will diet themselves, feed and live alone.
2. (intransitive) To modify one's food and beverage intake so as to decrease or increase body weight or influence health.

3. (obsolete) To eat; to take one's meals.
4. (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)

1. (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

2. (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.

3. (Scots law) A criminal proceeding in court.
4. (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)

1. (archaic) folk, people
2. (Belgium, archaic) the combined Flemish, Dutch and Afrikaner people

Related terms

• diedenweg, diets, 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

• IPA^(key): /ˈdiet̚/
• Rhymes: -et, -t
• Hyphenation: di‧ét

Noun

diét (plural diet-diet)

1. diet:
   1. the food and beverage a person or animal consumes; any habitual intake or consumption.
   2. a controlled regimen of food and drink, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health.

      Synonym: pemakanan

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)

1. to dance (archaic)

Conjugation

Synonyms

• dejot
• dancot
• griezt danci
• pamest līku kāju

Middle Dutch

Contraction

diet

1. Contraction of die dat.
2. 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

1. 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

1. 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

• dia

Verb

diet

1. simple past and past participle of die

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di͜yːt/

Verb

dīet

1. third-person singular present indicative of dīedan

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English diet. Doublet of dieta.

Pronunciation

Adjective

diet (invariable)

1. (of food or beverage) diet (containing lower-than-normal amounts of calories)

   Synonym: dietético

See also

• light

Swedish

Etymology

From Old French diete.

Noun

diet c

1. a diet

Declension

Related terms

• 5:2-diet
• dietist
• dietspecialist

See also

• banta

References

• diet in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• diet in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• diet in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• Edit

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)

1. iron (metal)

   Synonyms: (dialectal) lek, (dialectal) lik, (dialectal) faz