different between tellus vs provender

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *telh?-o-, from *telh?- (“ground”).

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Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?tel.lu?s/, [?t??l??u?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?tel.lus/, [?t??l?us]

Noun

tell?s f (genitive tell?ris); third declension

1. earth, ground
3. the Earth, globe
4. land, country

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Synonyms

• terra

Derived terms

References

• tellus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tellus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tellus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• tellus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• tellus in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[1]
• tellus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tellus in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)?^[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN

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)

1. (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)

1. (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 […]

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.