# diet
## English
### Alternative forms

* diët (rare)
* diate (obsolete)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdaɪət/
* Audio (US):(file)
* IPA: /ˈdaɪət/, /ˈdiːət/ (legislature)
* Rhymes: -aɪət, -iːət

### Etymology 1

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).

#### Noun

diet (plural diets)
* 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.
* (countable) A controlled regimen of food and drink choices, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health.
* (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, →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.

##### Derived terms

* 5:2 diet
* antidiet
* Atkins diet
* Atlantic diet
* balanced diet
* carnivore diet
* crash diet
* desert the diet
* dietarian
* dietary
* dietary fiber
* Diet Coke
* dieter
* dietetics
* dietic
* dietitian
* dietless
* dietology
* dietwise
* diety
* don't diet, try it
* elimination diet
* fad diet
* hypoglycemic diet
* keto diet
* ketogenic diet
* lion diet
* liquid diet
* Maduro diet
* Mediterranean diet
* misdiet
* mono diet
* nondiet
* Okinawa diet
* palaeodiet
* Paleo diet
* paleodiet
* prediet
* road diet
* South Beach Diet
* Stillman diet
* Stone Age diet
* superdiet
* Zone diet

##### Descendants

* → Japanese: ダイエット

##### Translations
#### Adjective

diet (not comparable)
* (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.
* (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.

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

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

#### Verb

diet (third-person singular simple present diets, present participle dieting, simple past and past participle dieted)
* (transitive) 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.
* (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 have lost some weight.
* (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.
* (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 […] .

##### Translations
### Etymology 3

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”).

#### Noun

diet (plural diets)
* (usually capitalized as a proper noun) A council or assembly of leaders; a formal deliberative assembly.
    They were given representation of some important diet committees.
    The National Diet of Japan
* (Scotland) A session of exams
** “Coronavirus: School exam timetable could be put back next year”, in BBC News website‎, BBC, 2020 June 14, retrieved 23 June 20
    Normally the diet begins towards the end of April.
* (Scots law) A criminal proceeding in court.
* (Scotland) A clerical or ecclesiastical function in Scotland.
    a diet of worship

##### Derived terms

* Dietman
* National Diet

##### Translations
### Anagrams

* -tide, dite, , edit., tide, tied

## Dutch
### Etymology

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”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dit/
* Hyphenation: diet
* Rhymes: -it

### Noun

diet n (uncountable)
* (archaic) folk, people
* (Belgium, archaic) the combined Flemish, Dutch and Afrikaner people

#### Related terms

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

## Indonesian
### Etymology

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).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdiet̚/
* Rhymes: -et, -t
* Hyphenation: di‧ét

### Noun

diét (plural diet-diet)
* diet:
** the food and beverage a person or animal consumes; any habitual intake or consumption.
** a controlled regimen of food and drink, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health.
    Synonym: pemakanan

#### Derived terms

* berdiet
* pediet
* pendiet
* diet Atkins
* diet bebas jerawat
* diet dadakan
* diet detoks
* diet Dukan
* diet GM
* diet Hay
* diet karbohidrat rendah
* diet ketogenik
* diet kombinasi
* diet lengkap
* diet makanan mentah
* diet makrobiotik
* diet mediterania
* diet murni
* diet paleo
* diet panjang umur
* diet pemulihan
* diet praktis
* diet rendah kolesterol
* diet semimurni
* diet suplemen
* diet yoyo

### Further reading

* “diet” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Latvian
### Verb

diet (?? missing information, 1st conjugation, present deju, dej, dej, past deju)
* to dance (archaic)

#### Synonyms

* dejot
* dancot
* griezt danci
* pamest līku kāju

## Middle Dutch
### Contraction

diet
* Contraction of die dat.
* Contraction of die het.

## Middle Irish
### Etymology

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

### Noun

diet f
* diet, régime; dieting

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Middle Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### Further reading

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

## Northern Sami
### Etymology

From Proto-Samic *tietë.

### Pronunciation

* (Kautokeino) IPA: /ˈtie̯h(t)/

### Determiner

diet
* that (near the listener)

#### Further reading

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

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Alternative forms

* dia

### Verb

diet
* simple past and past participle of die

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /di͜yːt/

### Verb

dīet
* third-person singular present indicative of dīedan

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English diet. Doublet of dieta.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈdaj.t͡ʃi/ [ˈdaɪ̯.t͡ʃi], /ˈdaj.e.t͡ʃi/ [ˈdaɪ̯.e.t͡ʃi], (careful pronunciation) /ˈdaj.et/ [ˈdaɪ̯.et]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈdaj.t͡ʃi/ [ˈdaɪ̯.t͡ʃi], /ˈdaj.e.t͡ʃi/ [ˈdaɪ̯.e.t͡ʃi], (careful pronunciation) /ˈdaj.et/ [ˈdaɪ̯.et]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈdaj.te/ [ˈdaɪ̯.te], /ˈdaj.e.te/ [ˈdaɪ̯.e.te], (careful pronunciation) /ˈdaj.et/ [ˈdaɪ̯.et]

### Adjective

diet (invariable)
* (of food or beverage) diet (containing lower-than-normal amounts of calories)
    Synonym: dietético

### See also

* light

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Old French diete.

### Noun

diet c
* a diet
    gå på en dietbe on a diet
    leva på en diet av potatis och öllive on a diet of potatoes and beer

#### Related terms

* 5:2-diet
* dietist
* dietspecialist

#### See also

* banta

### References

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

### Anagrams

* Edit

## Zhuang
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Zhuang) IPA: /tiːt˧˥/
* Tone numbers: diet$^7$
* Hyphenation: diet

### Noun

diet (1957–1982 spelling diet)
* iron (metal)
    Synonyms: (dialectal) lek, (dialectal) lik, (dialectal) faz