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English
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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 choices, 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.
Derived terms
- 5:2 diet
- antidiet
- Atkins diet
- Atlantic diet
- balanced diet
- carnivore diet
- crash diet
- desert the diet
- dietarian
- dietary
- dietary fiber
- Diet Coke
- dieter
- dietetics
- dietic
- dietitian
- dietless
- dietology
- dietwise
- diety
- don't diet, try it
- elimination diet
- fad diet
- hypoglycemic diet
- keto diet
- ketogenic diet
- lion diet
- liquid diet
- Maduro diet
- Mediterranean diet
- misdiet
- mono diet
- nondiet
- Okinawa diet
- palaeodiet
- Paleo diet
- paleodiet
- prediet
- road diet
- South Beach Diet
- Stillman diet
- Stone Age diet
- superdiet
- Zone diet
Descendants
- → Japanese: ダイエット
Translations
food a person or animal consumes
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controlled regimen of food
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habitual consumption
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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
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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.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
- 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[ward] 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
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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 (dĭ́aita, “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
- (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
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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
Noun
diet n (uncountable)
Related terms
- diedenweg, diets maken
- Diets, Dietsland, Platdiets
- beduiden, duiden, duidelijk, verduidelijken
- Duits, Duitsland, Nederduits
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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
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈdiet/ [ˈdi.ɛt̪̚]
- Rhymes: -et
- Syllabification: di‧et
Noun
Verb
diét
- to diet
- Synonym: (chiefly formal) berdiet
Derived terms
- berdiet (“to diet”)
- pediet (“dieter”)
- pendiet (“dieter”)
Further reading
- “diet” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Latvian
Verb
diet (?? missing information, 1st conjugation, present deju, dej, dej, past deju)
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Middle Dutch
Contraction
diet
Middle Irish
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin diēta (“daily allowance, regulation, daily order”), from Ancient Greek δίαιτα (díaita).
Noun
diet f
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Middle Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “diet”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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Northern Sami
Etymology
From Proto-Samic *tietë.
Pronunciation
Determiner
diet
- that (near the listener)
Inflection
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Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
Verb
diet
- simple past and past participle of die
Old English
Pronunciation
Verb
dīet
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English diet. Doublet of dieta.
Pronunciation
Adjective
diet (invariable)
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Swedish
Etymology
From Old French diete.
Noun
diet c
- a diet
- gå på en diet
- be on a diet
- leva på en diet av potatis och öl
- live on a diet of potatoes and beer
Declension
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Zhuang
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /tiːt˧˥/
- Tone numbers: diet7
- Hyphenation: diet
Noun
diet (1957–1982 spelling diet)
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