Nutriment

  • 121pap — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. spoon food, paste; teat, nipple; slang, patronage, plum, pork. See softness, convexity, influence. II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. Something fit to be eaten: aliment, bread, comestible, diet, edible …

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  • 122pabulum — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. sustenance, nutrition, diet; see food . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. Something fit to be eaten: aliment, bread, comestible, diet, edible, esculent, fare, food, foodstuff, meat, nourishment, nurture, nutriment,… …

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  • 123naiad — (n.) water nymph, c.1600, from L. Nais, Naias (gen. naiadis), from Gk. Naias (pl. Naiades) river nymph, from naiein to flow, from PIE *naw yo , suffixed form of root * (s)nau to swim, flow, let flow (see NUTRIMENT (Cf …

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  • 124nourish — (v.) late 13c., to bring up, nurture (a child, a feeling, etc.), from O.Fr. norriss , stem of norrir raise, bring up, nurture, foster; maintain, provide for (12c., Mod.Fr. nourrir), from L. nutrire to feed, nurse, foster, support, preserve, from… …

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  • 125nutrient — nu•tri•ent [[t]ˈnu tri ənt, ˈnyu [/t]] adj. 1) nut nourishing; providing nourishment or nutriment 2) nut containing or conveying nutriment, as solutions or vessels of the body 3) a nutrient substance • Etymology: 1640–50; < L nūtrient (s. of… …

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  • 126nutrient — /ˈnjutriənt / (say nyoohtreeuhnt) adjective 1. containing or conveying nutriment, as solutions or vessels of the body. 2. nourishing; affording nutriment. –noun 3. a nutrient substance. {Latin nūtriens, present participle, nourishing} …

  • 127σύγχυμον — σύγχυμος easily converted into nutriment masc/fem acc sg σύγχυμος easily converted into nutriment neut nom/voc/acc sg …

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  • 128nurse — [13] The ultimate source of nurse was Latin nūtrīre (which also gave English nourish [13], nutriment [16], and nutrition [16]). This originally meant ‘suckle’ (it is related to Sanskrit snauti ‘drips, trickles’), but was later generalized to… …

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