Diet (assembly)

In politics, a diet ( ) is a formal deliberative assembly or legislature. The term is used for some assemblies such as the German Imperial Diet (the general assembly of the Imperial Estates of the Holy Roman Empire), as well as a designation for modern-day legislative bodies of certain countries and states such as the National Diet of Japan, or the German Bundestag, the Federal Diet.

Etymology

The term (also in the nutritional sense) might be derived from Medieval Latin ', meaning both "parliamentary assembly" and "daily food allowance", from earlier Latin , possibly from the Greek ("arbitration"), or transcribing Classical Greek (), meaning "way of living", and hence also "diet" (regular food), "regular (daily) work".

Through a false etymology, reflected in Latin spelling change in medieval Europe that replaced the ''ae'' with ''e'', the word ''diaeta'' came to be associated with another Latin word , which means "day". Day thus came to be used in postclassical Europe in the sense of "an assembly" and retroactively explained that the day referred to the day of the assembly meeting.

The association with ''dies'' is reflected in the German language's use of (meeting) and also , meaning not only "day", as in (Monday) but also "parliament", "council", or other legislative chamber, as in or for national parliaments, and ''Landtag'' for regional assemblies.

Historic uses

In this sense, it commonly refers to the Imperial Diet assemblies of the Holy Roman Empire:
* Diet of Augsburg
* Diet of Nuremberg
* Diet of Regensburg
* Diet of Speyer
* Diet of Worms

After the Second Peace of Thorn of 1466, a German-language Prussian diet Landtag was held in the lands of Royal Prussia, a province of Poland in personal union with the king of Poland.

The Croatian word for a legislative assembly is (from the verb , "to assemble"); in historic contexts it is often translated with "diet" in English, as in "the Diet of Dalmatia" ('), "the Croatian Diet" ('), "the Hungarian-Croatian Diet" ('), or Diet of Bosnia ().

The Diet of Hungary, customarily called together every three years in Székesfehérvár, Buda or Pressburg, was also called "Diéta" in the Habsburg Empire before the 1848 revolution.

The Riksdag of the Estates was the diet of the four estates of Sweden, from the 15th century until 1866. The Diet of Finland was the successor to the Riksdag of the Estates in the Grand Duchy of Finland, from 1809 to 1906.

The Swiss legislature was the () before the Federal Assembly replaced it in the mid-19th century.

The Polish-Lithuanian Sejm was sometimes called a diet.

Current use

* The National Diet of Japan, the country's legislative body.
* Some universities in the UK and India refer to the period of formal examination and the conclusion of an academic term as an "examination diet".
* Scottish legal procedures include diets of proof, debate, appeal or meeting which may be ordered by a court.UK Legislation
Act of Sederunt (Fees of Solicitors in the Sheriff Court) (Amendment and Further Provisions) 1993
SI 1993/3080, Schedule 1, paragraph 5(c), issued by the Lords of Council and Session, 3 December 1993, accessed 21 June 2021

* -tag, German name for legislatures such as the Bundestag (lit. "Federal Diet")

See also

* Federal Assembly
*Landtag
*The Estates (States)
*List of legislatures by country
*Thing (assembly)
* Reichstag (disambiguation)
*National Assembly

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