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See also: Vitamin, vitamín, vi ta min, vi-ta-min, and vítamín

English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:vitaminWikipedia

Etymology

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1920, originally vitamine (1912), from Latin vīta (“life”) (see vital) + amine (see amino acids). Vitamine coined by Polish biochemist Casimir Funk after the initial discovery of aberic acid (thiamine), when it was thought that all such nutrients would be amines.[1] The term had become ubiquitous by the time it was discovered that vitamin C, among others, had no amine component. In 1920, British biochemist Jack Drummond proposed that the final -e be dropped to deemphasize the amine reference. The ending -in was acceptable because it was used for natural substances of undefined composition. Drummond also introduced the lettering system of nomenclature (Vitamin A, B, C, etc.) at this same time.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (UK) /ˈvɪt.ə.mɪn/[2][1][3]
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈvaɪ.tə.mɪn/, [ˈvʌɪ.ɾə.mɪn][2][1]
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  • (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈvɑɪ.tə.mən/, [ˈvɑɪ.ɾə.mən][4]
  • (General South African) IPA(key): /ˈvɨt.ə.mɨn/
  • (Philippines) IPA(key): /vaɪ̯ˈt̪aː.mɪn̪/, /baɪ̯ˈt̪aː.mɪn̪/

Noun

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vitamin (plural vitamins)

  1. Any of a specific group of organic compounds essential in small quantities for healthy human growth, metabolism, development, and body function; found in minute amounts in plant and animal foods or sometimes produced synthetically; deficiencies of specific vitamins produce specific disorders. a food rich in vitamins
  2. (informal, figurative) preceding a word or its initial letter, to imply that the referent benefits health or wellness Vitamin N: The Essential Guide to a Nature-Rich Life I just follow three three Cs: clean living, chewing thoroughly, and a daily dose of vitamin Church

Usage notes

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Most vitamins cannot be produced by the human body. It is sometimes said that this characteristic is part of the definition of the word vitamin, but vitamin D can be produced by the human body.

Hyponyms

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  • See also Thesaurus:vitamin

Derived terms

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  • B vitamin
  • sunshine vitamin
  • vitamer
  • vitaminic
  • vitaminize
  • vitamin A
    • vitamin A acid
  • vitamin B
    • vitamin B complex, vitamin Bc, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin B3, vitamin B4, vitamin B5, vitamin B6, vitamin B7, vitamin B9, vitamin B12, vitamin B17
  • vitamin C
  • vitamin D
    • vitamin D1, vitamin D2, vitamin D3, vitamin D4, vitamin D5
  • vitamin E
  • vitamin F (obsolete)
  • vitamin G
  • vitamin H
  • vitamin I (slang)
  • vitamin J (obsolete)
  • vitamin K
    • vitamin K1, vitamin K2
  • vitamin M
  • vitamin O
  • vitaminosis
  • vitamin P
  • vitamin R (slang)
  • vitamin V (slang)

Translations

[edit] organic compound essential to human health
  • Albanian: vitaminë (sq) f
  • Antillean Creole: vitamin f, vitaminn f
  • Arabic: فِيتَامِين m (fitamīn) Hijazi Arabic: فيتامين m (fītāmīn, vītāmīn)
  • Armenian: վիտամին (hy) (vitamin)
  • Azerbaijani: vitamin (az)
  • Belarusian: вітамі́н m (vitamín)
  • Bengali: ভিটামিন (bn) (bhiṭamin)
  • Bulgarian: витами́н m (vitamín)
  • Burmese: ဗီတာမင် (my) (bitamang)
  • Catalan: vitamina (ca) f
  • Chinese: Cantonese: 維他命 / 维他命 (wai4 taa1 ming6), 維生素 / 维生素 (wai6 sang1 sou3) Eastern Min: 維生素 / 维生素 (mì-sĕng-só), 維他命 / 维他命 (mì-tă-mêng) Hakka: 維他命 / 维他命 (vî-tha-mín) Hokkien: 維生素 / 维生素 (zh-min-nan) (ûi-seng-sò͘ / ûi-sng-sò͘ / î-sng-sò͘ / î-seng-sò͘), 維他命 / 维他命 (ûi-tha-bēng), bi-tá-bín Mandarin: 維生素 / 维生素 (zh) (wéishēngsù), 維他命 / 维他命 (zh) (wéitāmìng) Wu: 維生素 / 维生素 (6vi-sen-su), 維他命 / 维他命 (6vi-tha-min)
  • Czech: vitamín (cs) m
  • Danish: vitamin n
  • Dhivehi: ވިޓަމިން (viṭamin̊)
  • Dutch: vitamine (nl) c
  • Estonian: vitamiin
  • Faroese: vitamin f
  • Finnish: vitamiini (fi)
  • French: vitamine (fr) f
  • Galician: vitamina (gl) f
  • Georgian: ვიტამინი (viṭamini)
  • German: Vitamin (de) n
  • Greek: βιταμίνη (el) f (vitamíni)
  • Gujarati: પ્રજીવક (prajīvak)
  • Hebrew: וִיטָמִין (he) m (vitamin)
  • Hindi: विटामिन m (viṭāmin), जीवसत्त्व (jīvsattva)
  • Hungarian: vitamin (hu)
  • Icelandic: vítamín n, fjörefni n
  • Indonesian: vitamin (id)
  • Irish: vitimín m
  • Italian: vitamina (it) f
  • Japanese: ビタミン (ja) (bitamin)
  • Kazakh: дәрумен (kk) (därumen)
  • Khmer: ជីវជាតិ (km) (ciivĕəʼciət), វីតាមីន (km) (viitaamiin)
  • Korean: 비타민 (ko) (bitamin)
  • Kyrgyz: витамин (ky) (vitamin)
  • Lao: ວິຕາມິນ (lo) (wi tā min), ຢາມີແຮງ (yā mī hǣng)
  • Latvian: vitamīns (lv) m
  • Lithuanian: vitaminas m
  • Macedonian: витами́н (mk) m (vitamín)
  • Malay: vitamin (ms)
  • Malayalam: ജീവകം (ml) (jīvakaṁ)
  • Māori: huaora
  • Marathi: जीवसत्त्व n (jīvsattva)
  • Mongolian: витамин (mn) (vitamin), аминдэм (mn) (amindem)
  • Nepali: भिटामिन (bhiṭāmin)
  • Norwegian: Bokmål: vitamin (no) n Nynorsk: vitamin n
  • Persian: ویتامین (fa) (vitâmin)
  • Plautdietsch: Wietemin f
  • Polish: witamina (pl) f
  • Portuguese: vitamina (pt) f
  • Romanian: vitamină (ro) f
  • Russian: витами́н (ru) m (vitamín)
  • Sanskrit: जीवसत्त्व (jīvasattva)
  • Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: витамин m Latin: vitamin m
  • Sinhalese: විටමින් (wiṭamin)
  • Slovak: vitamín m
  • Slovene: vitamin (sl) m
  • Spanish: vitamina (es) f
  • Swahili: vitamini (sw)
  • Swedish: vitamin (sv) c
  • Tagalog: bitamina
  • Tajik: витамин (tg) (vitamin)
  • Thai: วิตามิน (th) (wí-dtaa-min), ไวตามิน (wai-dtaa-min)
  • Turkish: vitamin (tr)
  • Turkmen: witamin
  • Ukrainian: вітамі́н m (vitamín), життєда́й m (žyttjedáj)
  • Urdu: حَیَاتِین (ur) m (hayātīn), وٹامن m (viṭāmin)
  • Uyghur: ۋىتامىن (ug) (witamin)
  • Uzbek: vitamin (uz)
  • Vietnamese: sinh tố (vi), vi ta min (vi)
  • Yakut: битэмиин (bitemiin)
  • Yiddish: וויטאַמין (vitamin)
(attributive use of the noun)
  • Catalan: vitamínic
  • Galician: vitamínico (gl)
  • Spanish: vitamínico

Verb

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vitamin (third-person singular simple present vitamins, present participle vitamining, simple past and past participle vitamined)

  1. (transitive, dated) To fortify with vitamins.

See also

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  • vitamer

References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 “vitamin”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 “vitamin”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
  3. ^ Cambridge Dictionaries Online
  4. ^ Australian English

Crimean Tatar

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Etymology

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French vitamine.

Noun

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vitamin

  1. vitamin

Declension

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singular plural
nominative vitamin vitaminler
genitive vitaminniñ vitaminlerniñ
dative vitaminge vitaminlerge
accusative vitaminni vitaminlerni
locative vitaminde vitaminlerde
ablative vitaminden vitaminlerden

References

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  • “vitamin”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

Danish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /vitamiːn/, [vitˢaˈmiːˀn]

Noun

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vitamin n (singular definite vitaminet, plural indefinite vitaminer)

  1. vitamin

Declension

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neutergender singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative vitamin vitaminet vitaminer vitaminerne
genitive vitamins vitaminets vitaminers vitaminernes
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  • A-vitamin, B-vitamin, C-vitamin, D-vitamin, E-vitamin, K-vitamin
  • multivitamin
  • provitamin
  • vitaminholdig
  • vitaminisere

Further reading

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  • “vitamin” in Den Danske Ordbog
  • vitamin on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da

Hungarian

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Etymology

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From English vitamin.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈvitɒmin]
  • Hyphenation: vi‧ta‧min
  • Rhymes: -in

Noun

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vitamin (plural vitaminok)

  1. vitamin

Declension

[edit] Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative vitamin vitaminok
accusative vitamint vitaminokat
dative vitaminnak vitaminoknak
instrumental vitaminnal vitaminokkal
causal-final vitaminért vitaminokért
translative vitaminná vitaminokká
terminative vitaminig vitaminokig
essive-formal vitaminként vitaminokként
essive-modal — —
inessive vitaminban vitaminokban
superessive vitaminon vitaminokon
adessive vitaminnál vitaminoknál
illative vitaminba vitaminokba
sublative vitaminra vitaminokra
allative vitaminhoz vitaminokhoz
elative vitaminból vitaminokból
delative vitaminról vitaminokról
ablative vitamintól vitaminoktól
non-attributivepossessive – singular vitaminé vitaminoké
non-attributivepossessive – plural vitaminéi vitaminokéi
Possessive forms of vitamin
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. vitaminom vitaminjaim
2nd person sing. vitaminod vitaminjaid
3rd person sing. vitaminja vitaminjai
1st person plural vitaminunk vitaminjaink
2nd person plural vitaminotok vitaminjaitok
3rd person plural vitaminjuk vitaminjaik

Derived terms

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  • vitaminos
Compound words
  • A-vitamin
  • B-vitamin
  • C-vitamin
  • D-vitamin
  • vitamindús
  • vitaminhiány
  • vitaminszegény

References

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  1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Further reading

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  • vitamin in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Indonesian

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Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:vitaminWikipedia id

Etymology

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From English vitamin, earlier vitamine, from Latin vīta (“life”) (see vital) + amine.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [viˈtamɪn]
  • Hyphenation: vi‧ta‧min

Noun

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vitamin (plural vitamin-vitamin)

  1. vitamin
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  • avitaminosis

Further reading

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  • “vitamin”, 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

Japanese

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Romanization

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vitamin

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ヴィタミン
  2. Rōmaji transcription of ヸタミン

Malay

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Malay Wikipedia has an article on:vitaminWikipedia ms

Etymology

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From English vitamin, earlier vitamine, from Latin vīta (“life”) (see vital) + amine.

Noun

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vitamin (Jawi spelling ۏيتامين, plural vitamin-vitamin or vitamin2)

  1. vitamin: any of a specific group of organic compounds essential in small quantities for healthy human growth, metabolism, development, and body function; found in minute amounts in plant and animal foods or sometimes produced synthetically; deficiencies of specific vitamins produce specific disorders.

Further reading

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  • "vitamin" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

Norwegian Bokmål

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Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:vitaminWikipedia no

Noun

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vitamin n (definite singular vitaminet, indefinite plural vitamin or vitaminer, definite plural vitamina or vitaminene)

  1. a vitamin

References

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  • “vitamin” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:vitaminWikipedia nn

Noun

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vitamin n (definite singular vitaminet, indefinite plural vitamin, definite plural vitamina)

  1. a vitamin

References

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  • “vitamin” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Turkish

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Etymology

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From Ottoman Turkish ویتامین (vitamin), from French vitamine, from English vitamin.

Noun

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vitamin (definite accusative vitamini, plural vitaminler)

  1. vitamin

Declension

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singular plural
nominative vitamin vitaminler
definite accusative vitamini vitaminleri
dative vitamine vitaminlere
locative vitaminde vitaminlerde
ablative vitaminden vitaminlerden
genitive vitaminin vitaminlerin
Possessive forms
nominative
singular plural
1st singular vitaminim vitaminlerim
2nd singular vitaminin vitaminlerin
3rd singular vitamini vitaminleri
1st plural vitaminimiz vitaminlerimiz
2nd plural vitamininiz vitaminleriniz
3rd plural vitaminleri vitaminleri
definite accusative
singular plural
1st singular vitaminimi vitaminlerimi
2nd singular vitaminini vitaminlerini
3rd singular vitaminini vitaminlerini
1st plural vitaminimizi vitaminlerimizi
2nd plural vitamininizi vitaminlerinizi
3rd plural vitaminlerini vitaminlerini
dative
singular plural
1st singular vitaminime vitaminlerime
2nd singular vitaminine vitaminlerine
3rd singular vitaminine vitaminlerine
1st plural vitaminimize vitaminlerimize
2nd plural vitamininize vitaminlerinize
3rd plural vitaminlerine vitaminlerine
locative
singular plural
1st singular vitaminimde vitaminlerimde
2nd singular vitamininde vitaminlerinde
3rd singular vitamininde vitaminlerinde
1st plural vitaminimizde vitaminlerimizde
2nd plural vitamininizde vitaminlerinizde
3rd plural vitaminlerinde vitaminlerinde
ablative
singular plural
1st singular vitaminimden vitaminlerimden
2nd singular vitamininden vitaminlerinden
3rd singular vitamininden vitaminlerinden
1st plural vitaminimizden vitaminlerimizden
2nd plural vitamininizden vitaminlerinizden
3rd plural vitaminlerinden vitaminlerinden
genitive
singular plural
1st singular vitaminimin vitaminlerimin
2nd singular vitamininin vitaminlerinin
3rd singular vitamininin vitaminlerinin
1st plural vitaminimizin vitaminlerimizin
2nd plural vitamininizin vitaminlerinizin
3rd plural vitaminlerinin vitaminlerinin
Predicative forms
singular plural
1st singular vitaminim vitaminlerim
2nd singular vitaminsin vitaminlersin
3rd singular vitaminvitamindir vitaminlervitaminlerdir
1st plural vitaminiz vitaminleriz
2nd plural vitaminsiniz vitaminlersiniz
3rd plural vitaminler vitaminlerdir

Derived terms

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  • vitaminli
  • vitaminsiz

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