English → Latin
“forage” 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 growfarrāgōa kind of hash, mixed fodder for animals; mixture, hodgepodgeproficīscorto set out, depart, leavepābulorto 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
forage s.
equorum pabulum: pabulum: pastus (for cattle in general): farrago (if consisting of grains). To suffer from want of forage, premi inopia pabuli: there is plenty of forage, magna copia pabuli suppetit: to prevent the enemy from obtaining forage, hostem pabulatione intercludere.
forage v.
pabulatum ire or proficisci: pabulari (to fetch forage for cattle). To send out soldiers to forage, pabulatum (pabulandi causa) milites mittere.
To ravage (obsolete), Vid.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for forage?
- The usual Latin words for “forage” are pābulum, pāscō, farrāgō; also proficīscor, 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.