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provisions
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p???v??.?nz/
- Hyphenation: pro?vi?sions
Noun
provisions
- plural of provision
Verb
provisions
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of provision
French
Noun
provisions f
- plural of provision
Further reading
- “provisions” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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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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