Саяси мәжіліс: "Диета" ұғымының тарихы мен мағынасы

Type of deliberative assembly
In politics, a diet ('/d//aɪ//.//ə//t/ DYət) is a formal deliberative assembly. The term is used historically for deliberative 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.

The term (also in the nutritional sense) might be derived from Medieval Latin dieta, meaning both "parliamentary assembly" and "daily food allowance", from earlier Latin diaeta, possibly from the Greek διαιτησία (= arbitration), or transcribing Classical Greek δίαιτα diaita, meaning "way of living", and hence also "diet", "regular (daily) work". Through a false etymology, reflected in the spelling change replacing ae with e, the word "diet" came to be associated with Latin dies, "date". It came to be used in postclassical Europe in the sense of "an assembly" because of its use for the work of an assembly meeting on a daily basis or a given day of the time period, and hence for the assembly itself. The association with dies is reflected in the German language's use of Tagung (meeting) and tag (not only meaning "day", as in Montag—Monday—but also "parliament", "council", or other law deliberating chamber, as in Bundestag or Reichstag).

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.