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English
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
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.
The diet of the giant panda consists mainly of bamboo.
2013, Martin D Buckland, Lynda Hall, Alan Mowlem, A Guide to Laboratory Animal Technology, page 56:It is common policy to order no more diet than will be used within one month.
- (countable) A controlled regimen of food and drink, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health.
- (by extension) Any habitual intake or consumption.
He's been reading a steady diet of nonfiction for the last several years.
2021 February 3, Farhad Manjoo, “Can We Please Stop Talking About Stocks, Please?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:Last week the aging video game retailer emerged as the hottest stock on Wall Street, a story just unexpected and absurd enough to fill the new Trump-shaped void in our nation’s media diet.
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Translations
food a person or animal consumes
- Afrikaans: dieet
- Albanian: dietë (sq) f
- Armenian: սննդակարգ (snndakarg)
- Azerbaijani:
- Abjad: پرھیز (pærhîz)
- Roman: pəhriz
- Belarusian: дые́та f (dyjéta), е́жа f (jéža)
- Bulgarian: дие́та (bg) f (diéta), хра́на (bg) f (hrána)
- Catalan: dieta (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 飲食/饮食 (zh) (yǐnshí), 吃喝 (zh) (chīhē), 食物 (zh) (shíwù)
- Czech: strava (cs) f
- Danish: kost (da) c, ernæring c, næring (da) c, føde (da) c (animal), kost (da) c, føde (da) c
- Dutch: dieet (nl) n
- Finnish: ruokavalio (fi)
- French: diète (fr), régime (fr)
- Middle French: diete f
- Old French: diete f
- Galician: dieta (gl) f
- German: Ernährung (de) f, Nahrung (de) f, Speiseplan (de) m
- Greek: διατροφή (el) f (diatrofí)
- Ancient: διαίτημα f (diaítēma)
- Hebrew: דִּיאֵטָה (he) f (diéta)
- Hungarian: táplálék (hu), étrend (hu)
- Interlingua: dieta
- Irish: aiste bia f, réim bia f
- Italian: dieta (it) f
- Japanese: 飲食 (ja) (いんしょく, inshoku)
- Javanese: diet
- Khmer: របបអាហារ (rɔbɑɑp aahaa)
- Lao: ອາຫານ (lo) (ʼā hān)
- Latin: victus (la) m
- Macedonian: и́схрана f (íshrana), дие́та f (diéta)
- Maori: whiringa kai
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: diett (no) m, ernæring (no) m or f, næring m or f, kosthold n
- Occitan: dièta f
- Ottoman Turkish: پرھیز (perhîz)
- Persian: رژیم (fa) (režim)
- Polish: dieta (pl) f
- Portuguese: dieta (pt) f
- Russian: рацио́н (ru) f (ración), дие́та (ru) f (dijéta), пита́ние (ru) n (pitánije), пи́ща (ru) f (píšča), стол (ru) m (stol), еда́ (ru) f (jedá)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: исхрана f, храна f
- Roman: ȉshrana (sh) f, hrána (sh) f
- Spanish: dieta (es) f
- Swedish: kost (sv) c (human), föda (sv) c (animal)
- Tamil: உணவு (ta) (uṇavu)
- Telugu: ఆహారం (te) (āhāraṁ)
- Turkish: diyet (tr)
- Turkmen: berhiz (tk)
- Ukrainian: діє́та f (dijéta), ї́жа (uk) f (jíža)
- Vietnamese: chế độ ăn uống
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controlled regimen of food
- Afrikaans: dieet
- Albanian: dietë (sq) f
- Arabic: حِمْيَة f (ḥimya), نِظَام غِذَائِيّ m (niẓām ḡiḏāʔiyy)
- Egyptian Arabic: ريجيم m (rījīm)
- Gulf Arabic: رجيم m (rijīm), دايت m (dāyt)
- Hijazi Arabic: رَجيم m (rajīm)
- Armenian: սննդակարգ (snndakarg)
- Azerbaijani:
- Abjad: پرھیز (pærhîz)
- Roman: pəhriz
- Belarusian: дые́та f (dyjéta)
- Bulgarian: дие́та (bg) f (diéta)
- Catalan: dieta (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 節食/节食 (zh) (jiéshí), 飲食療養/饮食疗养 (zh) (yǐnshí liáoyǎng)
- Czech: dieta (cs) f
- Danish: kur c, diæt c
- Dutch: dieet (nl) n
- Finnish: dieetti (fi), ruokavalio (fi) (general), laihdutuskuuri (fi) (for losing weight)
- French: régime (fr)
- Galician: dieta (gl) f
- German: Diät (de) f
- Greek: δίαιτα (el) f (díaita), διαιτολόγιο (el) n (diaitológio)
- Hebrew: דִּיאֵטָה (he) f (diéta)
- Hindi: आहार (hi) f (āhār)
- Hungarian: étrend (hu), (refraining from certain foods, especially at bowel complaints) diéta (hu), (slimming diet) fogyókúra (hu)
- Ido: dieto (io)
- Interlingua: dieta
- Irish: réim f, réim bia f, aiste bia f
- Italian: dieta (it) f
- Japanese: ダイエット (ja) (daietto)
- Kashubian: dieta f
- Korean: 다이어트 (ko) (daieoteu)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: پارێز (parêz)
- Latin: diaeta f
- Macedonian: дие́та f (diéta)
- Maori: mahere kai, mahere kai hauora
- Marathi: पथ्य f (pathya)
- Ottoman Turkish: پرھیز (perhîz), یمكدن صاقنمه (yemekden saqınma), قورنمه (qūrunma)
- Persian: رژیم (fa) (režim)
- Polish: dieta (pl) f
- Portuguese: dieta (pt) f, regime (pt) m
- Russian: дие́та (ru) f (dijéta), режи́м пита́ния m (režím pitánija)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: дијета f
- Roman: dijéta (sh) f
- Slovak: diéta f
- Spanish: dieta (es)
- Swedish: bantning (sv), diet (sv) c
- Tamil: உணவு (ta) (uṇavu)
- Turkish: rejim (tr)
- Turkmen: berhiz (tk)
- Vietnamese: chế độ ăn kiêng
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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
1982, Consumer Guide, Dieter's Complete Guide to Calories, Carbohydrates, Sodiums, Fats & Cholesterol, page 18:Many grocery chains offer premium-priced lean or diet hamburger; but the fat content is usually at least 10 percent, sometimes 15 percent or more.
1998, Andy Sae, Chemical Magic from the Grocery Store:The difference in weight (mass) of the regular and the diet drink of the same brand roughly equals to the amount of sugar in the regular drink.
2010, Lonely Planet Peru, →ISBN, page 347:Diet Light (Pizarro 724; snacks S2-7; 9:30am-10pm)
This perennially busy place serves not-very-diet, but yummy nonetheless, ice cream (S2 to S5) and whopping servings of mixed fruit (S3) – with ice cream.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:diet.
- (informal, figurative) Having certain traits subtracted.
- Synonym: lite
You folks reduce it to the bible only as being authoritative, impoverishing the faith. "Christianity Lite", diet Christianity for those who can't handle the Whole Meal.
Translations
containing lower-than-normal amounts of calories
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.
1887, Medical Press and Circular, volume 94, page 461:When all signs of effusion, dulness, pain, œgophony, and cough had disappeared he was dieted, stimulated, and tonicked.
1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 45:As illustrating the belief that the Baptism by Blood was accompanied by a real regeneration of the devotee, Frazer quotes an ancient writer who says that for some time after the ceremony the fiction of a new birth was kept up by dieting the devotee on milk, like a new-born babe.
- (intransitive) To modify one's food and beverage intake so as to decrease or increase body weight or influence health.
I've been dieting for six months, and have lost some weight.
- (obsolete) To eat; to take one's meals.
1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Travel”, in The Essayes , 3rd edition, London: Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:Let him […] diet in such places, where there is good company of the nation, where he travelleth.
- (obsolete, transitive) To cause to take food; to feed.
c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):But partly led to diet my revenge […] .
Translations
to regulate the food of someone
to modify one's food and beverage intake
to cause to take food; to feed
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 (díaita, “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, BBC, 14 June 20, 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
council of leaders
- Arabic: بَرْلَمَان m (barlamān), مَجْلِس m (majlis)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 議會/议会 (zh) (yìhuì), 國會/国会 (zh) (guóhuì)
- Danish: parlament (da) n
- Dutch: parlement (nl) n, rijksdag (nl) m
- Finnish: valtiopäivät (fi) pl
- French: (Diet of Japan) Diète (fr) f, parlement (fr) m
- German: Versammlung (de) f, Parlament (de) n, (Diet of Japan) Kokkai n, Tag (de) m
- Greek: δίαιτα (el) f (díaita), συνέλευση (el) f (synélefsi), σύνοδος (el) f (sýnodos), βουλή (el) f (voulí)
- Hebrew: דִּיאֶט m (díet)
- Hungarian: országgyűlés (hu), parlament (hu), (archaic in this sense) diéta (hu)
- Ido: dieto (io)
- Italian: dieta (it) f
- Japanese: 議会 (ja) (ぎかい, gikai), 国会 (ja) (こっかい, kokkai)
- Macedonian: собрание n (sobranie)
- Portuguese: dieta (pt) f
- Russian: парла́мент (ru) m (parláment), (Diet of Japan) кокка́й m (kokkáj)
- Swedish: dag (sv) c
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Anagrams
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
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
Noun
diét (plural diet-diet, first-person possessive dietku, second-person possessive dietmu, third-person possessive dietnya)
- diet:
- the food and beverage a person or animal consumes; any habitual intake or consumption.
- a controlled regimen of food and drink, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health.
- Synonym: pemakanan
Derived terms
Further reading
Latvian
Verb
diet (?? missing information, 1st conjugation, present deju, dej, dej, past deju)
- to dance (archaic)
Conjugation
Synonyms
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
Middle Irish mutation
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Nasalization
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diet |
diet pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/, later /ɣ(ʲ)-/ |
ndiet
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Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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Further reading
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, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
Verb
diet
- simple past and past participle of die
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English diet. Doublet of dieta.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈdaj.t͡ʃi/ , /ˈdaj.e.t͡ʃi/ , (careful pronunciation) /ˈdaj.et/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈdaj.t͡ʃi/ , /ˈdaj.e.t͡ʃi/ , (careful pronunciation) /ˈdaj.et/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈdaj.te/ , /ˈdaj.e.te/ , (careful pronunciation) /ˈdaj.et/
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
Anagrams
Zhuang
Etymology
From Chinese 鐵 (MC thet). Doublet of lek and lik.
Pronunciation
Noun
diet (1957–1982 spelling diet)
- iron (metal)
- Synonyms: (dialectal) lek, (dialectal) lik, (dialectal) faz