caloric

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

• IPA^(key): /kəˈlɒɹɪk/

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• Rhymes: -ɒɹɪk

caloric (comparative more caloric, superlative most caloric)

1. Relating to calories.

   caloric intake

   • 2019 July 16, Anahad O’Connor, “Cutting 300 Calories a Day Shows Health Benefits”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     This strategy, known as caloric restriction, has been shown to increase the life span of various organisms and reduce their rate of cancer and other age-related ailments.

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.

caloric (uncountable)

2. (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.

   • 1849, M. R. C. S., Confessions of a Hypochondriac (page 94)

     I offered apologies to her beautyship, but she grew furious; and the fiery spots on her face became red-hot with the caloric of anger […]

caloric (not comparable)

1. caloric

• caloria

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

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

1. caloric