caloric

Etymology

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

adj

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”).

noun

1. (historical) The hypothetical medium of heat.
   The fluid matter of heat, or Calorique, in which all bodies are immersed, is as necessary to vegetable as to animal existence. 1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 45
   Caloric expands all bodies. 1799, William Henry, Elements of Experimental Chemistry