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provender
English
Etymology
From Middle English provendre, from Old French provendre, variant of provende (“allowance, provision”), from Late Latin praebenda (“a payment, in Medieval Latin also an allowance of food and drink, pittance, also a prebend”). Doublet of prebend.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p??v?nd?/, /?p??v?nd?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?p??v?nd?/
Noun
provender (usually uncountable, plural provenders)
- (dated) Food, especially for livestock.
- Synonyms: fodder; see also Thesaurus:food
- 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 12:
- The farm which supplied to him ungrudging provender had all his vast capacity for work in willing exercise …
- 1663, Hudibras, by Samuel Butler, part 1, canto 2
- He ripp'd the womb up of his mother, / Dame Tellus, 'cause he wanted fother, / And provender, wherewith to feed / Himself and his less cruel steed.
Translations
Verb
provender (third-person singular simple present provenders, present participle provendering, simple past and past participle provendered)
- (transitive) To feed.
- 1911, International Horseshoers' Monthly Magazine (volume 12, page 35)
- One night, after several days of continuous plowing, and after the ox and mule had been stabled and provendered for the night, the ox said to the mule […]
- 1911, International Horseshoers' Monthly Magazine (volume 12, page 35)
Further reading
- provender in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- provender in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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pasture
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)
- Land, specifically, an open field, on which livestock is kept for feeding.
- Ground covered with grass or herbage, used or suitable for the grazing of livestock.
- He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.
- (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 [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.x:
Synonyms
- leasow
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
pasture (third-person singular simple present pastures, present participle pasturing, simple past and past participle pastured)
- (transitive) To move animals into a pasture.
- (intransitive) To graze.
- (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)
- pasture
- Synonyms: passon, pasc
Related terms
Italian
Noun
pasture f
- 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
- vocative masculine singular of p?st?rus
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French pasture.
Noun
pasture f (plural pastures)
- 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 IXe au XVe 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)
- pasture (grassy field upon which cattle graze)
- pasture (nourishment for an animal)
Descendants
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