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“nutritious, nutritive” in Latin
valeōto have strength, influence, power; to avail; to be well, healthy, sound; to be worth, be worthyfirmusstrong, powerful; stable, firm; faithful, steadfast, truevalēnsstrong, vigorous, healthyīnfirmusweak, feeble; unhealthy, infirm, indisposed, sick; inconclusiveimbēcillusweak, feeble; cowardlynūtrībĭlisnourishing, nutritiousalmusnourishing; kind; propitious
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
nutritious, nutritive
PROP., of food, in quo multum alimenti est, magni cibi (that contains much nourishment; opposed to parvi cibi): valens, firmus, valentis or firmae materiae (strong; opposed to imbecillus, infirmus, imbecillae or infirmae materiae: ☞ alibilis occurs only Varr., R.R., 2, 11, 2 and 3; nutribilis, in very late writers; almus, only in poetry): very nutritious, maximi cibi (opposed to minimi cibi): to be more nutritious than, etc., plus alere quam, etc., plus alimenti habere, quam, etc.: meat is the most nutritious food, plus alimenti est in carne, quam in ullo alio: every sucking animal (i. e., the flesh of every such animal) is less nutritious, omne animal, si lactens est, minus alimenti praestat.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for nutritious, nutritive?
- The usual Latin words for “nutritious, nutritive” are valeō, firmus, valēns; also īnfirmus, imbēcillus, nūtrībĭlis. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.