noun · verb · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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Australian:/ˈvɑe.tə.mən/
Australian:[ˈvɑe.ɾə.mən]
General-South-African:/ˈvɨt.ə.mɨn/
Philippines:/vaɪ̯ˈt̪aː.mɪn̪/
Philippines:/baɪ̯ˈt̪aː.mɪn̪/
CMU ARPABET:V AY1 T AH0 M AH0 N
Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
1
noun
Meaning 1
Any of a specific group of organic compounds essential in small quantities for healthy human growth, metabolism, development, and body function. They are found in minute amounts in plant and animal foods or sometimes produced synthetically, and deficiencies of specific vitamins produce specific disorders.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
a food rich in vitamins
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
2
noun
Meaning 2
preceding a word or its initial letter, to imply that the referent benefits health or wellness
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, informal
Examples
Vitamin N: The Essential Guide to a Nature-Rich Life
I just follow three three Cs: clean living, chewing thoroughly, and a daily dose of vitamin Church
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
3
verb
Meaning 3
To fortify with vitamins.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
4
noun
Meaning 4
any of a group of organic substances essential in small quantities to normal metabolism
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
First use appears c. 1920, originally vitamine (1912), from Latin vīta (“life”) (see vital) + amine (see amino acids). Vitamine coined by Polish biochemist Casimir Funk after the initial discovery of aberic acid (thiamine), when it was thought that all such nutrients would be amines. The term had become ubiquitous by the time it was discovered that vitamin C, among others, had no amine component. In 1920, British biochemist Jack Drummond proposed that the final -e be dropped to deemphasize the amine reference. The ending -in was acceptable because it was used for natural substances of undefined composition. Drummond also introduced the lettering system of nomenclature (Vitamin A, B, C, etc.) at this same time.
Across languages
Translations
100 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Albanian:
vitaminë
— organic compound essential to human health
Antillean Creole:
vitamin
— organic compound essential to human health
Antillean Creole:
vitaminn
— organic compound essential to human health
Arabic:
فِيتَامِين
(fitamīn)
— organic compound essential to human health
Arabic:
فيتامين
(fītāmīn, vītāmīn)
— organic compound essential to human health
Armenian:
վիտամին
(vitamin)
— organic compound essential to human health
Azerbaijani:
vitamin
— organic compound essential to human health
Belarusian:
вітамі́н
(vitamín)
— organic compound essential to human health
Bengali:
ভিটামিন
(bhiṭamin)
— organic compound essential to human health
Bulgarian:
витами́н
(vitamín)
— organic compound essential to human health
Burmese:
ဗီတာမင်
(bitamang)
— organic compound essential to human health
Catalan:
vitamina
— organic compound essential to human health
Chinese Cantonese:
維他命 /维他命
(wai4 taa1 ming6)
— organic compound essential to human health
Chinese Cantonese:
維生素 /维生素
— organic compound essential to human health
Eastern Min Chinese:
維生素 /维生素
(mì-sĕng-só)
— organic compound essential to human health
Eastern Min Chinese:
維他命 /维他命
(mì-tă-mêng)
— organic compound essential to human health
Hakka Chinese:
維他命 /维他命
(vî-tha-mín)
— organic compound essential to human health
Chinese:
維生素 /维生素
(zh-min-nan)
— organic compound essential to human health
Chinese:
維他命 /维他命
(ûi-tha-bēng)
— organic compound essential to human health
Chinese:
bi-tá-bín
— organic compound essential to human health
Chinese Mandarin:
維生素 /维生素
(wéishēngsù)
— organic compound essential to human health
Chinese Mandarin:
維他命 /维他命
(wéitāmìng)
— organic compound essential to human health
Wu Chinese:
維生素 /维生素
(6vi-sen-su)
— organic compound essential to human health
Wu Chinese:
維他命 /维他命
(6vi-tha-min)
— organic compound essential to human health
Czech:
vitamín
— organic compound essential to human health
Danish:
vitamin
— organic compound essential to human health
Dhivehi:
ވިޓަމިން
(viṭamin̊)
— organic compound essential to human health
Dutch:
vitamine
— organic compound essential to human health
Estonian:
vitamiin
— organic compound essential to human health
Faroese:
vitamin
— organic compound essential to human health
Finnish:
vitamiini
— organic compound essential to human health
French:
vitamine
— organic compound essential to human health
Galician:
vitamina
— organic compound essential to human health
Georgian:
ვიტამინი
(viṭamini)
— organic compound essential to human health
German:
Vitamin
— organic compound essential to human health
Greek:
βιταμίνη
(vitamíni)
— organic compound essential to human health
Gujarati:
પ્રજીવક
(prajīvak)
— organic compound essential to human health
Hebrew:
וִיטָמִין
(vitamin)
— organic compound essential to human health
Hindi:
विटामिन
(viṭāmin)
— organic compound essential to human health
Hindi:
जीवसत्त्व
(jīvsattva)
— organic compound essential to human health
Hungarian:
vitamin
— organic compound essential to human health
Icelandic:
vítamín
— organic compound essential to human health
Icelandic:
fjörefni
— organic compound essential to human health
Indonesian:
vitamin
— organic compound essential to human health
Irish:
vitimín
— organic compound essential to human health
Italian:
vitamina
— organic compound essential to human health
Japanese:
ビタミン
(bitamin)
— organic compound essential to human health
Kazakh:
дәрумен
(därumen)
— organic compound essential to human health
Khmer:
ជីវជាតិ
(ciivĕəʼciət)
— organic compound essential to human health
Khmer:
វីតាមីន
(viitaamiin)
— organic compound essential to human health
Korean:
비타민
(bitamin)
— organic compound essential to human health
Kyrgyz:
витамин
(vitamin)
— organic compound essential to human health
Lao:
ວິຕາມິນ
(wi tā min)
— organic compound essential to human health
Lao:
ຢາມີແຮງ
(yā mī hǣng)
— organic compound essential to human health
Latvian:
vitamīns
— organic compound essential to human health
Lithuanian:
vitaminas
— organic compound essential to human health
Macedonian:
витами́н
(vitamín)
— organic compound essential to human health
Malay:
vitamin
— organic compound essential to human health
Malayalam:
ജീവകം
(jīvakaṁ)
— organic compound essential to human health
Māori:
huaora
— organic compound essential to human health
Marathi:
जीवसत्त्व
(jīvsattva)
— organic compound essential to human health
Mongolian:
витамин
(vitamin)
— organic compound essential to human health
Mongolian:
аминдэм
(amindem)
— organic compound essential to human health
Nepali:
भिटामिन
(bhiṭāmin)
— organic compound essential to human health
Norwegian Bokmål:
vitamin
— organic compound essential to human health
Norwegian Nynorsk:
vitamin
— organic compound essential to human health
Persian:
ویتامین
(vitâmin)
— organic compound essential to human health
Plautdietsch:
Wietemin
— organic compound essential to human health
Polish:
witamina
— organic compound essential to human health
Portuguese:
vitamina
— organic compound essential to human health
Romanian:
vitamină
— organic compound essential to human health
Russian:
витами́н
(vitamín)
— organic compound essential to human health
Sanskrit:
जीवसत्त्व
(jīvasattva)
— organic compound essential to human health
Serbo-Croatian:
витамин
— organic compound essential to human health
Serbo-Croatian:
vitamin
— organic compound essential to human health
Sinhalese:
විටමින්
(wiṭamin)
— organic compound essential to human health
Slovak:
vitamín
— organic compound essential to human health
Slovene:
vitamin
— organic compound essential to human health
Spanish:
vitamina
— organic compound essential to human health
Swahili:
vitamini
— organic compound essential to human health
Swedish:
vitamin
— organic compound essential to human health
Tagalog:
bitamina
— organic compound essential to human health
Tajik:
витамин
(vitamin)
— organic compound essential to human health
Thai:
วิตามิน
(wí-dtaa-min)
— organic compound essential to human health
Thai:
ไวตามิน
(wai-dtaa-min)
— organic compound essential to human health
Turkish:
vitamin
— organic compound essential to human health
Turkmen:
witamin
— organic compound essential to human health
Ukrainian:
вітамі́н
(vitamín)
— organic compound essential to human health
Ukrainian:
життєда́й
(žyttjedáj)
— organic compound essential to human health
Urdu:
حَیَاتِین
(hayātīn)
— organic compound essential to human health
Urdu:
وٹامن
(viṭāmin)
— organic compound essential to human health
Uyghur:
ۋىتامىن
(witamin)
— organic compound essential to human health
Uzbek:
vitamin
— organic compound essential to human health
Vietnamese:
sinh tố
— organic compound essential to human health
Vietnamese:
vi ta min
— organic compound essential to human health
Yakut:
битэмиин
(bitemiin)
— organic compound essential to human health
Yiddish:
וויטאַמין
(vitamin)
— organic compound essential to human health
Catalan:
vitamínic
— (attributive use of the noun)
Galician:
vitamínico
— (attributive use of the noun)
Spanish:
vitamínico
— (attributive use of the noun)
