different between aliment vs forage

English

Etymology

From French aliment, from Latin alimentum (“food”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?a.l?.m?nt/

Noun

aliment (countable and uncountable, plural aliments)

1. (now rare) Food.
2. (figuratively) Nourishment, sustenance.
   • 1597, Francis Bacon, Of the Colours of Good and Evil

     aliments of their sloth and weakness

   • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 356:

     All this monotony might be a good aliment for a poet but what if one had no gifts?

3. (Scotland) An allowance for maintenance; alimony.

Verb

aliment (third-person singular simple present aliments, present participle alimenting, simple past and past participle alimented)

1. (obsolete) To feed, nourish.
2. To sustain, support.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 434:

     Yet there would also be many – and not simply the powerful and ultra-privileged – who lost out, and whose discontent operated as a kind of political yeast, alimenting ‘unpatriotic’ thoughts and acts.

Related terms

• alimentary
• alimentary canal
• alimony
• alimental
• alimentous

Anagrams

• ailment, maltine, netmail

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin alimentum.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?.li?ment/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?.li?men/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /a.li?ment/

Noun

aliment m (plural aliments)

1. (piece of) food

Derived terms

• alimentar

See also

• menjar

Further reading

• “aliment” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “aliment” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “aliment” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “aliment” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

From Latin alimentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.li.m??/

Noun

aliment m (plural aliments)

1. food
   • 1755, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discours sur l’origine et les fondements de l’inégalité parmi les hommes

     C’est ainsi qu’un pigeon mourrait de faim près d’un bassin rempli des meilleures viandes, et un chat sur des tas de fruits, ou de grain, quoique l’un et l’autre pût très bien se nourrir de l’aliment qu’il dédaigne, s’il s’était avisé d’en essayer.

     Thus a pigeon would be starved to death by the side of a dish of the choicest meats, and a cat on a heap of fruit or grain; though it is certain that either might find nourishment in the foods which it thus rejects with disdain, did it think of trying them.

Related terms

• alimentation

Descendants

• ? Romanian: aliment

Further reading

• “aliment” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• mailent

Middle French

Noun

aliment m (plural alimens)

1. item of food

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin alimentum.

Pronunciation

Noun

aliment m (plural aliments)

1. item of food

Related terms

• alimentar
• alimentari

Romanian

Etymology

From French aliment, from Latin alimentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.li?ment/

Noun

aliment n (plural alimente)

1. food (any substance consumed by living organisms to sustain life)

Declension

Synonyms

• mâncare

English

Etymology

From Middle English forage, from Old French fourage, forage, a derivative of fuerre (“fodder, straw”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *f?dar (“fodder, sheath”), from Proto-Germanic *f?dr? (“fodder, feed, sheath”), from Proto-Indo-European *patrom (“fodder”), *pat- (“to feed”), *p?y- (“to guard, graze, feed”). Cognate with Old High German fuotar (German Futter (“fodder, feed”)), Old English f?dor, f?þor (“food, fodder, covering, case, basket”), Dutch voeder (“forage, food, feed”), Danish foder (“fodder, feed”), Icelandic fóðr (“fodder, sheath”). More at fodder, food.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?f??.?d??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?f???d??/
• (NYC, Ireland) IPA^(key): /?f???d??/
• Rhymes: -???d?

Noun

forage (countable and uncountable, plural forages)

1. Fodder for animals, especially cattle and horses.
   • 1819, Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:^[1]

     “The hermit was apparently somewhat moved to compassion by the anxiety as well as address which the stranger displayed in tending his horse; for, muttering something about provender left for the keeper's palfrey, he dragged out of a recess a bundle of forage, which he spread before the knight's charger.

   • To invade the corn, and to their cells convey
     The plundered forage of their yellow prey

2. An act or instance of foraging.
   • 1803, John Marshall, The Life of George Washington

     Mawhood completed his forage unmolested.

   • 1860 September, “A Chapter on Rats”, in The Knickerbocker, volume 56, number 3, page 304:

     ‘My dears,’ he discourses to them — how he licks his gums, long toothless, as he speaks of his forages into the well-stored cellars: […]

3. (obsolete) The demand for fodder etc by an army from the local population

Translations

Further reading

• Forage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Forage in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Verb

forage (third-person singular simple present forages, present participle foraging, simple past and past participle foraged)

1. To search for and gather food for animals, particularly cattle and horses.
   • 1841, James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer, Chapter 8:

     The message said that the party intended to hunt and forage through this region, for a month or two, afore it went back into the Canadas.

2. To rampage through, gathering and destroying as one goes.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act 1, Scene 2:

     And your great-uncle's, Edward the Black Prince, / Who on the French ground play'd a tragedy, / Making defeat on the full power of France, / Whiles his most mighty father on a hill / Stood smiling to behold his lion's whelp / Forage in blood of French nobility.

3. To rummage.
4. Of an animal: to seek out and eat food.

Derived terms

• forager

Translations

French

Etymology

From forer +? -age

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?.?a?/

Noun

forage m (plural forages)

1. drilling (act of drilling)

Derived terms

Further reading

• “forage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Alternative forms

• fforage

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French fourage; the first element is cognate to fodder.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f???ra?d?(?)/, /f??ra?d?(?)/

Noun

forage (uncountable)

1. forage (especially dry)

Descendants

• English: forage

References

• “f??r??e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-17.