nutritive

English

Etymology

From Middle French nutritif, from Late Latin nūtritīvus, from the participle stem of Latin nūtriō (“I suckle”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈnjuːtɹətɪv/

Adjective

nutritive (comparative more nutritive, superlative most nutritive)

  1. Of or pertaining to nutrition.
  2. Nourishing, nutritional.
    • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 355:
      D'Argenson reckoned that its consumption held up so well in times of high prices because the poor thought that it had nutritive value.

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Noun

nutritive (plural nutritives)

  1. (archaic) A nutrient.

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French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ny.tʁi.tiv/

Adjective

nutritive

  1. feminine singular of nutritif

German

Adjective

nutritive

  1. inflected form of nutritiv

Italian

Adjective

nutritive f

  1. feminine plural of nutritivo

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