cibus
Latin
Etymology
Unknown.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈki.bus/, [ˈkɪbʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.bus/, [ˈt͡ʃiːbus]
Audio (Classical) (file)
Noun
cibus m (genitive cibī); second declension
- food, fodder
- Synonym: epulae
- nourishment, sustenance
- (metonymically) meal
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | cibus | cibī |
| Genitive | cibī | cibōrum |
| Dative | cibō | cibīs |
| Accusative | cibum | cibōs |
| Ablative | cibō | cibīs |
| Vocative | cibe | cibī |
Derived terms
- cibālis
- cibārius
- cibicida
- cibō
Related terms
- cibātiō
- cibātus
Descendants
Descendants
- Galician: cebo
- Ladin: zaif (Grödnerisch)
- Neapolitan: civu (Calabria)
- Abruzzo: čaiv
- San-Fratello Lombard: tsaif
- Portuguese: cevo
- Sardinian: chibu, chivu; chiu, criu, cria; ciu, giu
- Sicilian: civu
- Spanish: cebo
- → Italian: cibo
- → Portuguese: cibo
- → Romanian: cib
- → Spanish: cibo
References
- Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911), “cibus”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 150
- Thurneysen 1907 (cf. WH).
Further reading
- “cibus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cibus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cibus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- cibus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to take food: cibum sumere, capere
- to digest food: cibum concoquere, conficere
- to be a great eater: multi cibi esse, edacem esse
- to set food before a person: cibum apponere, ponere alicui
- to take only enough food to support life: tantum cibi et potionis adhibere quantum satis est
- delicacies: cibus delicatus
- (ambiguous) to allay one's hunger, thirst: famem sitimque depellere cibo et potione
- (ambiguous) to refresh oneself, minister to one's bodily wants: corpus curare (cibo, vino, somno)
- (ambiguous) to abstain from all nourishment: cibo se abstinere
- to take food: cibum sumere, capere