nutritive

From Middle French nutritif, from Late Latin nūtritīvus, from the participle stem of Latin nūtriō (“I suckle”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈnjuːtɹətɪv/

nutritive (comparative more nutritive, superlative most nutritive)

1. Of or pertaining to nutrition.
2. Nourishing, nutritional.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 355:

     D'Argenson reckoned that its consumption held up so well in times of high prices because the poor thought that it had nutritive value.

• nonnutritive

• antinutritive
• innutritive
• nutritively

nutritive (plural nutritives)

1. (archaic) A nutrient.

• vetturini

• IPA^(key): /ny.tʁi.tiv/

nutritive

1. feminine singular of nutritif

nutritive

1. inflection of nutritiv:
   1. strong and mixed nominative and accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative and accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine and neuter singular

nutritive (comparative plus nutritive, superlative le plus nutritive)

1. nutritious

• nutriente
• nutrimento
• nutrition

nutritive f

1. feminine plural of nutritivo

• nutritevi, vetturini