different between pasture vs ranche

English

Etymology

From Middle English pasture, pastoure, borrowed from Anglo-Norman pastour, Old French pasture, from Latin past?ra, from the stem of pascere (“to feed, graze”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p??stj?/, /?p??st??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?pæst??/

Noun

pasture (countable and uncountable, plural pastures)

1. Land, specifically, an open field, on which livestock is kept for feeding.
2. Ground covered with grass or herbage, used or suitable for the grazing of livestock.

   • He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.
3. (obsolete) Food, nourishment.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.x:

     Ne euer is he wont on ought to feed, / But toades and frogs, his pasture poysonous [...].

Synonyms

• leasow

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

pasture (third-person singular simple present pastures, present participle pasturing, simple past and past participle pastured)

1. (transitive) To move animals into a pasture.
2. (intransitive) To graze.
3. (transitive) To feed, especially on growing grass; to supply grass as food for.

Translations

Anagrams

• Pasteur, Puertas, Supetar, tear-ups, tears up, uprates, upstare, uptears

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin past?ra, from p?stus.

Noun

pasture f (plural pasturis)

1. pasture

   Synonyms: passon, pasc

Related terms

Italian

Noun

pasture f

1. plural of pastura

Anagrams

• ruspate, sparute, sputare, sputerà

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pa?s?tu?.re/, [pä?s??t?u???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pas?tu.re/, [p?s?t?u???]

Participle

p?st?re

1. vocative masculine singular of p?st?rus

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French pasture.

Noun

pasture f (plural pastures)

1. pasture (grassy field upon which cattle graze)

Descendants

• French: pâture

References

• pasture on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (pasture, supplement)

Old French

Etymology

From Latin past?ra, from p?stus.

Noun

pasture f (oblique plural pastures, nominative singular pasture, nominative plural pastures)

1. pasture (grassy field upon which cattle graze)
2. pasture (nourishment for an animal)

Descendants

English

Noun

ranche (plural ranches)

1. Obsolete spelling of ranch

Anagrams

• Hancer, chenar, enarch

Spanish

Verb

ranche

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of ranchar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of ranchar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of ranchar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of ranchar.