English → Latin
“fodder” in Latin
pābulumfood, nourishment, sustenance; fodder, pasture; nourishment for the mind, food for thoughtpāscōto feed, nourish, maintain, support; to pasture, drive to pasture, tend, attend; to feed, supply, cultivate, let growpābulorto eat fodder, feed, graze; to seek fodder, food or subsistence; forage; to manure, nourish, feed
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
fodder
pabulum (for cattle; also = “forage;” but pabulatio is “foraging”): pastus (general term, food for cattle). This is good fodder, hoc pecudes probe alit: to seek fodder (of animals), pabulum anquirere: to fetch fodder (e.g., of soldiers), pabulari: to send the soldiers out for fodder, pabulatum (pabulandi causa) milites mittere: to suffer from the want of fodder, premi inopia pabuli: there is plenty of fodder, magna copia pabuli suppetit: to cut off the enemy from the means of getting fodder, hostem pabulatione intercludere: to go out to fetch or look for fodder, pabulatum ire or proficisci: the horse takes its fodder well, equus libenter cibo utitur.
fodder v.
To give food, pabulum dare: to fodder animals well, largo pastu sustentare: to fodder the horses with leaves, equos alere foliis ex arboribus strictis. Vid: To FEED.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for fodder?
- The usual Latin words for “fodder” are pābulum, pāscō, pābulor. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.