diet

Meanings

Noun

• The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.
• A controlled regimen of food and drink, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health.
• Any habitual intake or consumption.
• A council or assembly of leaders; a formal deliberative assembly.
• A session of exams
• The proceedings under a criminal libel.
• A clerical or ecclesiastical function in Scotland.

Adjective

• Containing less fat, salt, sugar, or calories than normal, or claimed to have such.
• Having certain traits subtracted.

Verb

• To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet.
• To modify one's food and beverage intake so as to decrease or increase body weight or influence health.
• To eat; to take one's meals.
• To cause to take food; to feed.

Origin

• From Middle English diet, dyet, diete, from Old French diete, from Medieval Latin dieta ("regimen, regulation; assembly"), from Latin diaeta, from Ancient Greek δίαιτα.
• From Middle English dieten, dyeten, diȝeten, from Old French dïeter and Medieval Latin diētāre.
• From Middle English diet, dyet, from Old French diete, from Medieval Latin diēta, diaeta, from Ancient Greek δῐ́αιτα ("way of living, living space; decision, judgement"), influenced by Latin diēs.