alimenta: penus (general terms for victuals; alimenta, mostly with reference to the wants of an individual; penus, to the wants of a whole family = provisions): cibus: esca (“food;” meat, opposed to drink, ☞ Cic., Fin., 1, 11; 2, 28; cibus, natural food, as a means of nourishment; esca, the food that is artificially prepared as a dish; hence cibus, also, of the food of brutes; but esca only a bait, prepared, as it were, like a dish, and set before them): cibaria (the most general and usual sorts of food): edulia (savory and select sorts of food). To take food, cibum capere, sumere, or (of the habit) cibum capessere (e.g., animalia cibum partim dentibus capessunt): to take too much food, little food, etc., Vid: “to EAT much, little,” etc.: to abstain from food, cibo se abstinere; jejunare (to fast): to digest one’s food, cibum conficere or concoquere: to give anybody nothing but his food, aliquem nunquam salario, cibariis tantum sustentare (Suet., Tib., 46).