nutrient

Borrowed from Latin nūtriēns, present participle of nūtriō (“I suckle, nourish, foster”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈnjuː.tɹi.ənt/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈnuː.tɹi.ənt/

nutrient (plural nutrients)

1. A source of nourishment, such as food, that can be metabolized by an organism to give energy and build tissue.
   • 2012 August 24, George Monbiot, Guardian Weekly, page 20:

     Even second-generation biofuels, made from crop wastes or wood, are an environmental disaster, either extending the cultivated area or removing the straw and stovers which protect the soil from erosion and keep carbon and nutrients in the ground.

• nutriment

• antinutrient
• essential nutrient

nutrient (comparative more nutrient, superlative most nutrient)

1. Providing nourishment.

• nourish
• nourishment
• nurse
• nursery
• nutriment
• nutrition
• nutritional
• nutritious
• nutritive

• “nutrient”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “nutrient”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Learned borrowing from Latin nūtrientem.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [nu.tɾiˈen]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencian) [nu.tɾiˈent]

nutrient m (plural nutrients)

1. nutrient

• nodrir

• “nutrient” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “nutrient”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “nutrient” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

nūtrient

1. third-person plural future active indicative of nūtriō