different between subsistence vs fodder

English

Etymology

From Late Latin subsistentia (“substance, reality, in Medieval Latin also stability”), from Latin subsistens, present participle of subsistere (“to continue, subsist”). See subsist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?b?s?st?ns/

Noun

subsistence (countable and uncountable, plural subsistences)

1. Real being; existence.
   • (Can we date this quote by Stillingfleet and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Not only the things had subsistence, but the very images were of some creatures existing.

2. The act of maintaining oneself at a minimum level.
3. Inherency.

4. Something (food, water, money, etc.) that is required to stay alive.
   • (Can we date this quote by Addison and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     His viceroy could only propose to himself a comfortable subsistence out of the plunder of his province.

5. (theology) Embodiment or personification or hypostasis of an underlying principle or quality.

Synonyms

• (real being): See also Thesaurus:existence
• (something required to stay alive): sustenance
• (theology): hypostasis

Related terms

• subsist
• subsistent
• subsistence economy

Translations

Further reading

• subsistence in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• subsistence in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

From Middle English fodder, foder, from Old English f?dor (“feed; fodder”), from Proto-Germanic *f?dr? (compare Saterland Frisian Fodder, West Frisian foer, Dutch voer (“pasture; fodder”), German Futter (“fodder; feed”), Danish foder, Swedish foder), from *f?dô 'food', from Proto-Indo-European *peh?- (“to guard, graze, feed”). More at food.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?f?d?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?f?d?/
• Rhymes: -?d?(?)
• Hyphenation: fod?der

Noun

fodder (countable and uncountable, plural fodders)

1. Food for animals; that which is fed to cattle, horses, and sheep, such as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc.
   • 1598?, William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona,Act I, scene I:

     The sheep for fodder follow the shepherd, the shepherd for food follows not the sheep.

2. (historical) A load: various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities, generally around 1000 kg.
3. (slang, drafting, design) Tracing paper.
4. (figuratively) Stuff; material; something that serves as inspiration or encouragement, especially for satire or humour.

   • According to the audio commentary on “Treehouse Of Horror III,” some of the creative folks at The Simpsons were concerned that the “Treehouse Of Horror” franchise had outworn its welcome and was rapidly running out of classic horror or science-fiction fodder to spoof.

5. (cryptic crosswords) The text to be operated on (anagrammed, etc.) within a clue.
   • 2009, "Colin Blackburn", another 1-off cryptic clue. (on newsgroup rec.puzzles.crosswords)

     In (part of) Shelley's poem Ozymandias is a "crumbling statue". If this is the explanation then the clue is not a reverse cryptic in the same was^[sic] as GEGS -> SCRAMBLED EGGS but a normal clue where where^[sic] the fodder and anagrind are *both* indirect.

Synonyms

• (animal food): forage, provender
• (cartload): See load

Hyponyms

• (cartload): See load

Derived terms

• cannon fodder
• jail fodder
• fodder radish
• background fodder

Translations

Verb

fodder (third-person singular simple present fodders, present participle foddering, simple past and past participle foddered)

1. (dialect) To feed animals (with fodder).

   • Straw will do well enough to fodder them with

Anagrams

• forded

Middle English

Alternative forms

• foddre, fodre, foder, fodyr, foddur, voddur

Etymology

From Old English f?dor. Doublet of fother.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fo?d?r/

Noun

fodder (uncountable)

1. fodder

Descendants

• English: fodder
• Scots: foder, fodder, fother, fothir

References

• “fodder, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-18.