superalimento
Italian
Etymology
Calque of English superfood; from super + alimento (“food”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /su.pe.ra.liˈmɛn.to/
- Rhymes: -ɛnto
- Hyphenation: su‧pe‧ra‧li‧mèn‧to
Noun
superalimento m (plural superalimenti)
- (neologism) synonym of supercibo (“superfood”)
Spanish
Etymology
Calque of English superfood; from super + alimento (“food”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /supeɾaliˈmento/ [su.pe.ɾa.liˈmẽn̪.t̪o]
- Rhymes: -ento
- Syllabification: su‧pe‧ra‧li‧men‧to
Noun
superalimento m (plural superalimentos)
- superfood
- 2015 November 20, “Por qué los modernos ya no comen #aguacate”, in El País[1]:
- Hasta hace tres nanosegundos el aguacate era el superalimento de moda.
- Until three nanoseconds ago the avocado was the trendy superfood.
Further reading
- “superalimento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024