caloric

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See also: calòric

English

Etymology

From calorie +‎ -ic. From French calorique, coined by French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, from Latin calor (heat).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kəˈlɒɹɪk/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɒɹɪk

Adjective

caloric (comparative more caloric, superlative most caloric)

  1. Relating to calories.
    caloric intake
    • 2019 July 16, Anahad O’Connor, “Cutting 300 Calories a Day Shows Health Benefits”, in The New York Times:
      This strategy, known as caloric restriction, has been shown to increase the life span of various organisms and reduce their rate of cancer and other age-related ailments.
  2. Containing calories.
    Milk is a caloric beverage.
  3. Synonym of calorific (high in calories and thus likely fattening).
    a dry, caloric food
  4. 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.

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Noun

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Wikipedia

caloric (uncountable)

  1. (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)

  1. caloric

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)

  1. caloric

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Declension of caloric
singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative-
accusative
indefinite caloric calorică calorici calorice
definite caloricul calorica caloricii caloricele
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indefinite caloric calorice calorici calorice
definite caloricului caloricei caloricilor caloricelor