different between forage vs roughage
forage
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)
- 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
- To invade the corn, and to their cells convey
- 1819, Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:[1]
- 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: […]
- 1803, John Marshall, The Life of George Washington
- (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)
- 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.
- 1841, James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer, Chapter 8:
- 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.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act 1, Scene 2:
- To rummage.
- 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)
- 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)
- 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.
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roughage
English
Alternative forms
- ruffage
Etymology
rough +? -age
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??f?d??/
Noun
roughage (countable and uncountable, plural roughages)
- dietary fibre
- any rough or coarse material, especially fodder
Translations
References
- “roughage”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
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