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caloric.

Relating to calories.

7 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj/kəˈlɒɹɪk//ˈkæləɹɪk/
  1. Relating to calories.

    caloric intake
  2. Containing calories.

    Milk is a caloric beverage.
  3. Synonym of calorific (“high in calories and thus likely fattening”).

    a dry, caloric food
  4. Synonym of calorific (“relating to or producing heat or other energy”).

Where this word comes from

From calorie + -ic. From French calorique, coined by French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, from Latin calor (“heat”).

noun/kəˈlɒɹɪk//ˈkæləɹɪk/
  1. The hypothetical medium of heat.

    historical · uncountable
Where this word comes from

From calorie + -ic. From French calorique, coined by French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, from Latin calor (“heat”).

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