caloric

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

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

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”).

• 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.

• calorific (UK)

• noncaloric

• calorically
• caloric deficit
• calorific value

caloric (uncountable)

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

caloric (not comparable)

1. caloric

• caloria

From French calorique.

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

1. caloric