different between victualler vs victual

English

Etymology

From Middle English vitailler, from Old French vitaillier; equivalent to victual +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?v?tl?(?)/

Noun

victualler (plural victuallers)

1. A supplier of victuals or supplies to an army.
2. (chiefly Britain) An innkeeper.
3. (Scotland) One who deals in grain; a corn factor.
4. (nautical) A supply ship.

Alternative forms

• victualer

Synonyms

• provisioner
• sutler
• provider
• innkeeper
• supplier
• host

Anagrams

• culvertail

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?v?tl?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?v?t(?)l/, [-?(?)l]
• Rhymes: -?t?l
• Hyphenation: vic?tual

Etymology 1

From Middle English vitaile, vitaylle (“food; food and drink, especially as needed for sustenance; (usually in the plural) food and drink stores or supplies; rations; provision of food and drink as a military stipend; crops”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman vitaile, vitaille [and other forms] and Old French vitaile, vitaille, victaille (“food, provisions, victuals”) [and other forms] (modern French victuaille), from Late Latin victu?lia, the neuter plural of v?ctu?lis (“nutritional”), from Latin v?ctus (“that which sustains life, diet, nourishment, provision”) + -?lis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship from nouns). V?ctus is derived from v?v? (“to live; to be alive, survive; to reside in”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *g?eyh?- (“to live”)) + -tus (suffix forming action nouns from verbs).

The spelling of the modern English and French words has been influenced by Late Latin victu?lia, though the pronunciation of the Middle English, Anglo-Norman, and Middle French words has been retained.

Noun

victual (plural victuals)

1. (archaic) Food fit for human (or occasionally animal) consumption.
2. (archaic, chiefly in the plural) Food supplies; provisions.
3. (specifically, obsolete)
   1. Edible plants.
   2. (Scotland) Grain of any kind.

Alternative forms

• victuall (obsolete)
• vittle

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English vitailen (“to provide (someone, a castle, a ship, etc., or oneself) with supplies of food, drink, or other needs; (figuratively) to load (a ship with troops and materiel); to fortify, nourish”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman vitailer, vitailler, and Old French vitailler, victuailler [and other forms], from vitaile, vitaille, victaille (“food, provisions, victuals”) (see further at etymology 1) + -er (a variant of -ier (suffix forming infinitives of first conjugation verbs)).

Verb

victual (third-person singular simple present victuals, present participle victualing or victualling, simple past and past participle victualed or victualled) (archaic)

1. (transitive, reflexive, chiefly military, nautical) To provide (military troops, a place, a ship, etc., or oneself) with a stock of victuals or food; to provision.
2. (intransitive, chiefly military, nautical) To lay in or procure food supplies.
3. (intransitive) To eat.

Conjugation

Alternative forms

• victuall (obsolete)
• vittle

Derived terms

Translations

References

Further reading

• drink on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• food on Wikipedia.Wikipedia