Etymology

nutrition

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Today it means: The organic process by which an organism assimilates food and uses it for growth and maintenance. Full definition →

Middle French nutrition ← Old French nutricion ← Latin nutritio
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  1. Latin · derived fromnutritio
  2. Old French · derived fromnutricion
  3. Middle French · borrowed fromnutrition
  4. English todaynutrition

Borrowed from Middle French nutrition, from Old French nutricion, from Latin nutritio.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.