noun · neutersecond declension
pābulum
pābulum n (genitive pābulī)
Classical[ˈpaː.bʊ.ɫũː]Ecclesiastical[ˈpaː.bu.lum]
Mille Verba core vocabulary
Meaning
- food, nourishment, sustenance
[…] ultro / hortantem et fessas ad pabula nota vocantem
[…] freely / calling them and exhorting the weary insects to eat their familiar food.c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Vergilius, Georgicon 4.265 - fodder, pasture
- figurativelynourishment for the mind, food for thought
Sī vērō habet aliquod tamquam pābulum studī atque doctrīnae, nihil est ōtiōsā senectūte iūcundius. If, indeed, it possesses some nourishment, so to speak, for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than a leisurely old age. (Note how Cicero uses tamquam to signal that the word pābulum has a figurative meaning in this context.)
106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Cato Maior de Senectute 14.49
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
cibus pecorum: herba quam edunt.pābulum -ī n — in Mille Verba, Rūs et Agrīcultūra
herba, cibus animāliumpābulum -ī (n) — in Metamorphoses I, ch. 5, 17
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | pābulum | pābula |
| genitive | pābulī | pābulōrum |
| dative | pābulō | pābulīs |
| accusative | pābulum | pābula |
| ablative | pābulō | pābulīs |
| vocative | pābulum | pābula |
pābŭlum, i, n. from the root pa, whence also pa-sco,
I. food, nourishment.
I. Lit.
A. Of men (only poet.):
dura mundi, Lucr. 5, 944: dira (of the human food of Polyphemus), Val. Fl. 4, 105; Stat. Th. 12, 566.—B. Of animals, food, fodder (very freq. and class.):
bubus pabulum parare, Cato, R. R. 54, 1: pabulo pecoris student (Numidae), Sall. J. 90, 1: secare pabulum, Caes. B. G. 7, 14: supportare, id. B. C. 3, 58: consumere, id. B. G. 7, 18: conquirere, Hirt. B. G. 8, 10: comparare, Nep. Eum. 8: hirundo Pabula parva legens, Verg. A. 12, 475: pabula decerpere, Ov. M. 13, 943: pabula carpsit ovis, id. F. 4, 750; id. P. 1, 2, 122: praebere feris, Lucr. 4, 685; 5, 991: pabula laeta, id. 2, 364; 875: luna feras ducit ad pabula, Petr. 100: viciam conserere in pabulum, Col. 11, 2, 71: cervi noctu procedunt ad pabula, Plin. 8, 32, 50, § 117: subus serpentes in pabulo sunt, id. 11, 53, 115, § 279: ager frugum pabulique laetus, i. e. food for men and beasts, Sall. H. 2, 91 Dietsch; id. J. 90, 1.—II. Trop., food, nourishment, sustenance (class.): Acheruntis pabulum, food for Acheron (said of one who deserves to die), Plaut. Cas. 2, 1, 11:
piscibus in alto credo praehibent pabulum, id. Rud. 2, 6, 29: amoris, Lucr. 4, 1063: est enim animorum ingeniorumque naturale quoddam quasi pabulum consideratio contemplatioque naturae, Cic. Ac. 2, 41, 127: studii atque doctrinae, id. Sen. 14, 49: dederatque gravi nova pabula morbo, Ov. M. 8, 876.—Of manure: pabula fesso praebere novali, Col. 10, 84; 2, 5, 1.—Of nourishment for the mind: quasi pabula quaedam animo ad sublimiora scandendi conquirens, Amm. 14, 5, 6.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
pābulum ī, n
1 PA-, food, nourishment, food for cattle, fodder, pasturage, grass : pecoris, S.: secare pabulum, Cs.: comparare, N.: hirundo Pabula parva legens, V.: pabula carpsit ovis, O.: Pabula canescunt, i. e. the grass , O.: caelestia, i. e. ambrosia , O.—Fig., food, nourishment, sustenance : animorum: dederat nova pabula morbo, O.
Origins
From pā(scō) (“to nourish”) + -bulum, or directly from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-dʰlom (*peh₂- + *-dʰlom).
Descendants
- Italianpabbio
- Italianpabulo
- Romanianplaur
- Catalanpàbul
- Englishpablum
- Englishpabulum
- Portuguesepábulo
- Spanishpábulo
- Asturianpola
- Galicianpoula