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English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin nūtrīcius.
Pronunciation
Adjective
nutritious (comparative more nutritious, superlative most nutritious)
- (of food or drink) Providing nutrients; healthy to eat.
- Synonyms: nourishing, nutritive
- (figurative) Salutary.
1861, Isaac Taylor, The Spirit of the Hebrew Poetry, page 247:A cumbrous, circuitous, and often a sophisticative mode of commenting upon the Prophets, and of darkening their meaning, had taken the place of what might have been a nutritious popular instruction.
Related terms
Translations
providing nutrients
- Arabic: مُغَذٍّ (muḡaḏḏin)
- Asturian: nutritivu, alimentador, alimenticiu
- Bengali: পুষ্টিকর (bn) (puśṭikor)
- Catalan: nutritiu, nutrient (ca), nutrici, alimentós (ca), alimentador (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 有營養/有营养 (yǒu yíngyǎng)
- Czech: výživný
- Dutch: voedzaam (nl)
- Finnish: ravitseva (fi)
- French: nutritif (fr)
- Galician: nutritivo, nutriente (gl), alimenticio (gl), alimentador
- German: nahrhaft (de)
- Greek:
- Ancient: τρόφιμος (tróphimos)
- Hebrew: מֵזִין (he) m (mezín)
- Hungarian: tápláló (hu)
- Ido: nutriva (io), nutranta (io)
- Irish: beathúil
- Italian: nutriente (it)
- Latin: nūtrīcius
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: næringsrik
- Nynorsk: næringsrik
- Portuguese: nutritivo (pt), nutriente (pt), nutritício, alimentoso, alimentício (pt)
- Russian: пита́тельный (ru) (pitátelʹnyj)
- Spanish: nutritivo (es), nutriente (es), alimentoso (es), alimentador (es), alimenticio (es)
- Swedish: näringsrik (sv), näringsriktig
- Tagalog: mapaniya, masustansya
- Turkish: besleyici (tr)
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