vitamin

Etymology
1920, originally vitamine (1912), from (see ) +  (see ). Vitamine coined by Polish biochemist after the initial discovery of aberic acid (thiamine), when it was thought that all such nutrients would be amines. The term had become ubiquitous by the time it was discovered that vitamin C, among others, had no amine component. In 1920, British biochemist 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.

Noun

 * 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.

Hyponyms

 * See also Thesaurus:vitamin

Derived terms



 * vitamin A acid
 * 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 D1, vitamin D2, vitamin D3, vitamin D4, vitamin D5
 * vitamin K1, vitamin K2
 * vitamin D1, vitamin D2, vitamin D3, vitamin D4, vitamin D5
 * vitamin K1, vitamin K2
 * vitamin D1, vitamin D2, vitamin D3, vitamin D4, vitamin D5
 * vitamin K1, vitamin K2
 * vitamin K1, vitamin K2
 * vitamin K1, vitamin K2
 * vitamin K1, vitamin K2
 * vitamin K1, vitamin K2
 * vitamin K1, vitamin K2
 * vitamin K1, vitamin K2
 * vitamin K1, vitamin K2

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Antillean Creole: vitamin, vitaminn
 * Arabic: فِيتَامِين
 * Hijazi Arabic: فيتامين
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian: вітамі́н
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: витами́н
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 維他命, 維生素
 * Eastern Min: 維生素, 維他命
 * Hakka: 維他命
 * Hokkien:, 維他命, bi-tá-bín
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Wu: 維生素, 維他命
 * Czech:
 * Danish: vitamin
 * Dhivehi: ވިޓަމިން
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: vitamiin
 * Faroese: vitamin
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ვიტამინი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Gujarati: પ્રજીવક
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: विटामिन, जीवसत्त्व
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: vítamín, fjörefni
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: vitimín
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh:
 * Khmer: ,
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao:, ຢາມີແຮງ
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: vitaminas
 * Macedonian: витами́н
 * Malay: vitamin
 * Malayalam:
 * Maori: huaora
 * Marathi: जीवसत्त्व
 * Mongolian: ,
 * Nepali: भिटामिन
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: vitamin
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: Wietemin
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit: जीवसत्त्व
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: витамин
 * Roman: vitamin
 * Sinhalese: විටමින්
 * Slovak: vitamín
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: bitamina
 * Tajik:
 * Thai:, ไวตามิน
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: witamin
 * Ukrainian: вітамі́н, життєда́й
 * Urdu:, وٹامن
 * Uyghur:
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Yakut: битэмиин
 * Yiddish: וויטאַמין


 * Galician: vitamínico
 * Spanish: vitamínico

Verb

 * 1)  To fortify with vitamins.

Etymology
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Etymology
From.

Etymology
From, earlier , from (see ) +.

Noun

 * : 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.

Etymology
From, earlier , from (see ) +.

Noun

 * : 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.

Noun

 * a

Noun

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Etymology
From, from , from.