caloric

See also: calòric

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈlɒɹɪk/
• Rhymes: -ɒɹɪk

Adjective

caloric (comparative more caloric, superlative most caloric)

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”).

Usage notes

• For the senses "relating to calories" and "relating to or producing heat", caloric is the usual form in the US, and calorific is the usual form in the UK.

Synonyms

• calorific (UK)

 

Antonyms

• noncaloric

 

Coordinate terms

• endothermic
• exothermic
• thermodynamic

 

Derived terms

• barocaloric
• barocalorics
• calorically
• caloric deficit
• calorics
• calorific value
• elastocaloric
• elastocalorics
• electrocaloric
• electrocalorics
• ionocaloric
• ionocalorics
• magnetocaloric
• magnetocalorics

 

Translations

relating to calories

• Finnish: kalorinen

containing calories

• Finnish: kaloripitoinen

high in calories and thus likely fattening — see also calorific

• Finnish: runsaskalorinen

relating to or producing heat or other energy — see also calorific

Noun

caloric (uncountable)

1. (historical) The hypothetical medium of heat.
   • 1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 45:

     The fluid matter of heat, or Calorique, in which all bodies are immersed, is as necessary to vegetable as to animal existence.

   • 1799, William Henry, Elements of Experimental Chemistry:

     Caloric expands all bodies.

Interlingua

Adjective

caloric (not comparable)

1. caloric

Related terms

• caloria

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French calorique. By surface analysis, calorie +‎ -ic.

Adjective

caloric m or n (feminine singular calorică, masculine plural calorici, feminine and neuter plural calorice)

1. caloric

Declension

Declension of caloric

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	caloric		calorică	calorici	calorice
	definite	caloricul		calorica	caloricii	caloricele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	caloric		calorice	calorici	calorice
	definite	caloricului		caloricei	caloricilor	caloricelor