dietetic

[ dahy-i-tet-ik ]

adjective

1. pertaining to diet or to regulation of the use of food.
2. prepared or suitable for special diets, diet, especially those requiring a restricted sugar intake:

   a jar of dietetic jelly.

noun

1. dietetics, (used with a singular verb) the science concerned with the nutritional planning and preparation of foods.

dietetic

/ ˌdaɪɪˈtɛtɪk /

adjective

1. denoting or relating to diet or the regulation of food intake
2. prepared for special dietary requirements

Derived Forms

• ˌdieˈtetically, adverb

Other Words From

• die·teti·cal·ly adverb
• nondi·e·tetic adjective
• nondi·e·teti·cal·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of dietetic¹

1535–45; < Latin diaeteticus < Greek diatētikós, equivalent to diatē-, variant stem of diaitân to treat, regulate (derivative of díaita diet ¹ ) + -tikos -tic

Example Sentences

She decided to use her undergraduate degree in food science and her postgraduate degree in dietetics to begin debunking more clips—but she quickly realized that many hacks weren’t just fake but actually dangerous.

From MIT Technology Review

In 1906, Frederick Gowland Hopkins of Cambridge University challenged his colleagues to learn more about what he called “unsuspected dietetic factors” in an organism’s health.

From MIT Technology Review

It must be made perfectly clear, said the bishop, that Christianity was a religion, and not a dietetic dogma.

From Project Gutenberg

The vestry declined to compromise, and insisted on allowing tobacco as a non-dietetic indulgence.

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For instance the three departments of medicine are the rhetorical, the dietetic, and the surgical and pharmaceutical.

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Excess of starch, so my experience has convinced me, is the deadliest of all dietetic errors.

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This brings up my dietetic history, to the period at which it commences, in the letter to Dr. North.

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