Standard Lemma guide

provitamin

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

No pronunciation record was provided for this word.

1

noun

Meaning 1

Any biologically inactive compound that may be converted into a vitamin within an animal organism

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: biochemistry, biology, chemistry, microbiology, natural-sciences, physical-sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

vitamin precursor; a substance that is converted into a vitamin in animal tissues

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: hydrocarbon

Narrower terms: provitamin A, carotene, carotin

History

Etymology

From pro- (“forward, facing, favouring, toward”) + vitamin.

Across languages

Translations

8 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Catalan: provitamina — compound
  • Finnish: provitamiini — compound
  • French: provitamine — compound
  • German: Provitamin — compound
  • Italian: provitamina — compound
  • Japanese: プロビタミン (purobitamin) — compound
  • Korean: 프로비타민 (peurobitamin) — compound
  • Spanish: provitamina — compound