Nutriment

Definition: Nutriment

Nutriment

Noun

1. A source of materials to nourish the body.

Date "nutriment" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1607. (references)

Etymology: Nutriment \Nu"tri*ment\, noun. [Latin expression nutrimentum, from nutrire to nourish. See Nourish.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Nutriment

Synonyms: aliment (n), alimentation (n), nourishment (n), nutrition (n), sustenance (n), victuals (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Food	Food, pabulum; aliment, nourishment, nutriment; sustenance, sustentation, sustention; nurture, subsistence, provender, corn, feed, fodder, provision, ration, keep, commons, board; commissariat; (provision); prey, forage, pasture, pasturage; fare, cheer; diet, dietary; regimen; belly timber, staff of life; bread, bread and cheese.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Nutriment

English words defined with "nutriment": Food yolk ♦ Gemmule ♦ parasitic plant ♦ Right of support ♦ Vitelligenous. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Nutriment" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (nutrient).

"Nutriment" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Nutriment" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	9	117,287

Expression using "nutriment": principal nutriment. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "nutriment"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		ushqim për kafshët (stover), ushqim (aliment, alimentation, alimony, allowance, chow, chuck, comestible, cuisine, diet, dish, eatables, eating, fare, feed, feeding, food, foodstuff, grub, input, meat, nourishment, nurture, nutrition, pabulum, pot luck, provender, repast, supply, sustenance, table, tack, Tommy), bukë ushqyese. (various references)

Arabic		‏قوت (aliment, bread, food, nourishment, subsistence, sustenance, victual), ‏غذاء (aliment, diet, feed, food, meat, nourishment, nutrition). (various references)

Bulgarian		храна (aliment, board, boarding, chow, chuck, diet, dietary, eating, edibles, fare, feed, fodder, food, fuel, meal, meat, nourishment, nurture, nutrition, pabulum, provender, rations, scran, sustenance, tack, viands, victuals). (various references)

Chinese		養料 (nourishment). (various references)

Czech		strava (board, diet, fare, food, keep), potrava (aliment, food, nourishment, nurture, sustenance), živina. (various references)

Finnish		ravinto (food, nourishment). (various references)

French		nutritif (nutrient, nutrimental, nutritious, nutritive), substance nutritive (nutrient, nutritive substance). (various references)

German		nahrung (diet, food, fuel, nourishment, nourishments, sustenance). (various references)

Greek		τροφή (aliment, diet, fare, feed, food, grub, nourishment, nutrition, pabulum, sustenance, viand). (various references)

Hebrew		מזון מזין, ברות (food, nourishment). (various references)

Hungarian		táplálék (aliment, feed, food, jock, nourishment, nutrition, pabulum), szellemi táplálék, étel (damper, dub, eat, eatables, eating, fare, food, jock, meal, meat, mess, nourishment, scarf, scran), élelem (comestible, food, meat, nutrition, pabulum, viands, victualage, victuals). (various references)

Italian		nutrimento (aliation, feeding, food, nourishment, nurture, nutrition, pabulum, provisions, sustenance). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		滋味 (nourishment, rich food, savoriness, wholesome). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		じみ (nourishment, plain, rich food, savoriness, simple, wholesome), えいようぶ�" (nourishment, nutritious substance). (various references)

Pig Latin		utrimentnay

Portuguese		nutritivo (nourishing, nutritious, nutritive), nutrimento (diet, food). (various references)

Romanian		nutreţ (fodder, forage, mess, pasturage), hranã (board, bread, diet, eatable, eats, esculent, fare, feed, food, keep, meat, nourishment, nutrition, support, sustenance). (various references)

Russian		корм (feed, fodder, forage, nutrition, provender), пища (aliment, diet, eating, eats, fare, food, foodstuff, grub, nourishment, nurture, nutrition, pabulum, pabulums, prog, provender, victuals). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		hranljiv sastojak, hrana (aliment, chow, cuisine, eatables, fare, food, nourishment, nurture, pabulum, prog, provender, tommy, trencher, viands, victual, victuals). (various references)

Spanish		nutrimento (nourishment), alimento (aliment, food, nourishment). (various references)

Swedish		näring (fodder, food, fuel, industry, nourishment, nutrition, pabulum, trade). (various references)

Thai		อาหารบำรุงกำลัง. (various references)

Turkish		gıda (aliment, diet, fare, food, nourishment, nutrient, nutrition, pabulum, sustenance), besin (aliment, food, nourishment, nutrient, nutrition, nutritional, pabulum, sustenance, sustentation, tack). (various references)

Ukranian		їжа (aliment, bait, board, chow, chuck, eating, fare, feed, feeding, fodder, food, meat, nosh, nourishment, nurture, nutrition, nutritive, pabulum, potluck, thing, Tommy, viand, victual), харчування (aliment, alimentation, alimony, feed, feeding, food, living, meal, nourishment, nurture, nutrition, sustenance, sustentation), харч (chow, nosh, nourishment, nouriture, nutritive, provender), корм (bait, feed, foodstuff, nurture, pabulum), пожива (chow). (various references)

Vietnamese		chất dinh dưỡng (nutrient, nutritive), chất ăn bổ, đ�" ăn bổ. (various references)

Welsh		maeth (aliment, nourishment). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	cibi, cibis, cibo, ciborum, ciborumque, cibos, cibum, cibus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "nutriment": nutriments. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Nutriment" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Nurminen. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "nutriment" (pronounced 'Nu"tri*ment'): Abandonment, Abasement, Abashment, Abatement, Abetment, Abiliment, Abjurement, Abodement, Abolishment, Aborsement, Abortment, Abridgment, Absentment, Abutment, Acclimatement, Accompaniment, Accomplishment, Accordment, Accouchement, Accouplement, Accroachment, Accrument, Accusement, Acharnement, Acknowledgment, Acquirement, Acquitment, Additament, Adjournment, Adjudgment, Adjument, Adjustment, Admonishment, Adorement, Adornment, Advancement, Advertisement, Advisement, Affamishment, Affeerment, Afforcement, Afforciament, Affordment, Affranchisement, Affrayment, Affreightment, Affrightment, Aggrandizement, Aggroupment, Agistment. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-i-m-n-n-r-t-t-u"
	-1 letter: nutrient.
	-2 letters: minuter, nuttier, unmiter, unmitre.
	-3 letters: intent, intern, inturn, iterum, minter, minuet, minute, mitten, muntin, murein, murine, mutine, mutter, nutter, remint, retint, tenuti, tinmen, tinner, tinter, titmen, triune, uniter, unrent, untrim.
	-4 letters: ennui, inert, inner, inter, inure, inurn, merit, miner, miter, mitre, muter, niter, nitre, numen, remit, renin, rumen, rutin, timer, titer, titre.
	Words containing the letters "e-i-m-n-n-r-t-t-u"
	+1 letter: instrument, nutriments.
	+2 letters: instruments, unremitting.
	+3 letters: instrumental, instrumented, menstruating, menstruation.
	+4 letters: argumentation, instrumentals, instrumenting, integumentary, intermountain, macronutrient, menstruations, micronutrient, unremittingly.
	+5 letters: argumentations, disgruntlement, instrumentally, intercommunity, intermenstrual, macronutrients, micronutrients, neuroanatomist, thermojunction.
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