different between food vs pabulum

English

Etymology

From Middle English fode, foode, from Old English f?da (“food”), from Proto-Germanic *f?dô (“food”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh?- (“to guard, graze, feed”). Cognate with Scots fuid (“food”), Low German föde, vöde (“food”), West Frisian fiedsel (“food”), Dutch voedsel (“food”) Danish føde (“food”), Swedish föda (“food”), Icelandic fæða, fæði (“food”), Gothic ???????????????????????????? (f?deins, “food”), Latin p?nis (“bread, food”), Latin p?sc? (“feed, nourish”, verb). Related to fodder, foster.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: fo?od, IPA^(key): /fu?d/
• (General American) enPR: fo?od, IPA^(key): /fud/
• Rhymes: -u?d

Noun

food (usually uncountable, plural foods)

1. (uncountable) Any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:food
2. (countable) A foodstuff.

   Synonyms: (archaic, now only humorous or regional) belly-timber, foodstuff, provender; see also Thesaurus:food

   • 2006, C Williams, J Buttriss, Improving the Fat Content of Foods ?ISBN, page 492:

     Variation and changes in the trans fatty acid content of different foods, especially in processed foods, further complicate such estimates.

3. (uncountable, figuratively) Anything that nourishes or sustains.

   Hyponym: brainfood

   • 1798, William Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey

     In this moment there is life and food / For future years.

Usage notes

• Adjectives often applied to "food": raw, cooked, baked, fried, grilled, processed, healthy, unhealthy, wholesome, nutritious, safe, toxic, tainted, adulterated, tasty, delicious, fresh, stale, sweet, sour, spicy, exotic, marine.

Synonyms

• (substance consumed by living organisms): belly-timber (archaic, now only humorous or regional), chow (slang), comestible (formal), eats (slang), feed (for domesticated animals), fodder (for domesticated animals), foodstuffs, nosh (slang), nourishment, provender, sustenance, victuals

Derived terms

Related terms

• feed
• fodder

Translations

See also

• breakfast
• brunch
• dinner
• dunch
• lunch, luncheon
• meal
• supper
• Category:Foods

Further reading

• food on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• food on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• do of, doof

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin p?bulum (“food, nourishment; fodder or pasture for animals; nourishment for the mind, food for thought”), from p?(sc?) (“to nourish”) +? -bulum (“suffix denoting an instrument”), or directly from Proto-Indo-European *peh?-d?lom (*peh?- (“to protect, shepherd”) + *-d?lom, variant of *-trom (“suffix denoting a tool or instrument”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?pabj?l?m/, /?pabj?l?m/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?pæbj?l?m/, /?pæbj?l?m/
• Hyphenation: pa?bu?lum

Noun

pabulum (countable and uncountable, plural pabula or pabulums)

1. Food or fodder, particularly that taken in by plants or animals.
2. Material that feeds a fire.
3. (figuratively) Food for thought.
4. (figuratively) Bland intellectual fare; an undemanding diet of words.

Synonyms

• (bland intellectual fare): pablum

Derived terms

• pabular
• pabulary

Translations

Further reading

• pabulum (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Etymology

From p?(sc?) (“I nourish”) +? -bulum, or directly from Proto-Indo-European *peh?-d?lom (*peh?- + *-d?lom).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pa?.bu.lum/, [?pä?b??????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pa.bu.lum/, [?p??bulum]

Noun

p?bulum n (genitive p?bul?); second declension

1. food, nourishment, sustenance
2. (of animals) fodder, pasture
3. (figuratively) nourishment for the mind, food for thought

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Synonyms

• (food, nourishment): alimentum, alim?nia, alim?nium

Derived terms

• p?bul?ris
• p?bul?rius
• p?bulor
• p?bul?sus

Related terms

• p?bul?ti?
• p?bul?tor
• p?bul?t?rius

Descendants

• Catalan: pàbul
• English: pablum, pabulum
• Galician: poula
• Portuguese: pábulo
• Romanian: plaur
• Spanish: pábulo

References

• pabulum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pabulum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pabulum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• pabulum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette