caloric
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See also: calòric
English
Etymology
calorie + -ic. From French calorique, coined by French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, from Latin calor (“heat”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
caloric (comparative more caloric, superlative most caloric)
- Relating to calories.
- caloric intake
- Containing calories.
- Milk is a caloric beverage.
- Synonym of calorific (“high in calories and thus likely fattening”).
- a dry, caloric food
- Synonym of calorific (“relating to or producing heat or other energy”).
Usage notes
- For the senses "relating to calories" and "relating to or producing heat", caloric is the usual form in the US, and calorific is the usual form in the UK.
Synonyms
- calorific (UK)
Antonyms
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
Translations
relating to calories
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containing calories
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high in calories and thus likely fattening — see also calorific
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relating to or producing heat or other energy — see also calorific
Noun
caloric (uncountable)
- (historical) The hypothetical medium of heat.
- 1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 45:
- The fluid matter of heat, or Calorique, in which all bodies are immersed, is as necessary to vegetable as to animal existence.
- 1799, William Henry, Elements of Experimental Chemistry:
- Caloric expands all bodies.
Interlingua
Adjective
caloric (not comparable)
Related terms
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French calorique. By surface analysis, calorie + -ic.
Adjective
caloric m or n (feminine singular calorică, masculine plural calorici, feminine and neuter plural calorice)
Declension
Declension of caloric
| singular | plural | ||||||
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| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
| nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | caloric | calorică | calorici | calorice | ||
| definite | caloricul | calorica | caloricii | caloricele | |||
| genitive/ dative |
indefinite | caloric | calorice | calorici | calorice | ||
| definite | caloricului | caloricei | caloricilor | caloricelor | |||