diet

• diët (rare)
• diate (obsolete)

• IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪət/

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• IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪət/, /ˈdiːət/ (deliberative assembly)
• Rhymes: -aɪət, -iːət

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).

diet (plural diets)

2. 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.

4. (countable) A controlled regimen of food and drink choices, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health.

   He's been on a diet since he found out that he has coronary atherosclerosis.

5. (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^[1], →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.

• → Japanese: ダイエット

diet (not comparable)

1. (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.
2. (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.

From Middle English dieten, dyeten, diȝeten, from Old French dïeter and Medieval Latin diētāre.

diet (third-person singular simple present diets, present participle dieting, simple past and past participle dieted)

1. (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 I've lost some weight.

2. (transitive, dated) 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.

3. (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.

4. (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  […] .

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”).

diet (plural diets)

2. (usually capitalized as a proper noun) A council or assembly of leaders; a formal deliberative assembly.

   Alternative form: Diet

   the National Diet of Japan

   They were given representation in some important diet committees.

3. (Scotland) A session of exams.

   Normally the diet begins towards the end of April.

   • “Coronavirus: School exam timetable could be put back next year”, in BBC News website‎^[2], BBC, 14 June 2020, retrieved 23 June 20
4. (Scots law) A criminal proceeding in court.
5. (Scotland) A clerical or ecclesiastical function in Scotland.

   a diet of worship

• -tide, dite, edit, edit., tide, tied

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”).

• IPA^(key): /dit/
• Hyphenation: diet
• Rhymes: -it

diet n (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. (archaic) folk, people
2. (Belgium, archaic) the combined Flemish, Dutch and Afrikaner people

• diedenweg, diets maken
• Diets, Dietsland, Platdiets
• beduiden, duiden, duidelijk, verduidelijken
• Duits, Duitsland, Nederduits

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).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈdiet/ [ˈdi.ɛt̪̚]
• Rhymes: -et
• Syllabification: di‧et

diét (plural diet-diet)

1. diet

   Synonym: pemakanan (Malay)

diét

1. to diet

   Synonym: (chiefly formal) berdiet

• “diet”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Derived from English date.

diet (plural diet dem, quantified diet)

1. date

diet (?? missing information, 1st conjugation, present deju, dej, dej, past deju)

1. to dance (archaic)

• dejot
• dancot
• griezt danci
• pamest līku kāju

diet

1. contraction of die +‎ dat
2. contraction of die +‎ het

Borrowed from Medieval Latin diēta (“daily allowance, regulation, daily order”), from Ancient Greek δίαιτα (díaita).

diet f

1. diet, régime; dieting

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “diet”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Proto-Samic *tietë.

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈtie̯h(t)/

diet

1. that (near the listener)

Pronominal inflection
Nominative	diet
Genitive	dien
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	diet	diet
Accusative	dien	dieid
Genitive	dien	dieid
Illative	diesa	dieidda
Locative	dies	diein
Comitative	dieinna	dieiguin
Essive	dienin

• Eino Koponen, Klaas Ruppel, Kirsti Aapala, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[3], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

• dia

diet

1. simple past and past participle of die

• IPA^(key): /di͜yːt/

dīet

1. third-person singular present indicative of dīedan

Unadapted borrowing from English diet. Doublet of dieta.

diet (invariable)

1. (of food or beverage) diet (containing lower-than-normal amounts of calories)

   Synonym: dietético

• light

• “diet”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026

From Old French diete.

diet c

1. 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

• 5:2-diet
• dietist
• dietspecialist

• banta

• diet in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• diet in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• diet in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• Edit

From Chinese 鐵 (MC thet). Doublet of lek and lik.

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /tiːt˧˥/
• Tone numbers: died⁷
• Hyphenation: diet

diet (1957–1982 spelling diet)

1. iron (metal)

   Synonyms: (dialectal) lek, (dialectal) lik, (dialectal) faz