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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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S&H Smith & Hall (1)
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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• food:
      1. 1. cĭbus (gen. term; esp. for food of man): to take f., c. capere, Cic. Fam. 16, 1: Ter.; c. sumere, Nep. Att. 21, fin.: to digest f., c. concoquere, Cic. N. D. 2, 9, 24: the flesh of wild animals was their f., c. erat caro ferina, Sall. Jug. 18. Fig.: rain is the f. of trees, c. arborum imber, Plin. 7, 2 § 12: f. for rage, c. furoris, Ov. Adj., relating to f., cĭbārius: laws relating to f., leges cibariae, Cato: hence, cĭbāria, ōrum: including all things used as f.: cooked f., cocta cibaria, Liv. 3, 27, etc.: to give any one f., cibaria alicui praebere, Cic. R. Am. 20, 57: v. provisions.
      2. 2. pābŭlum (usu. for cattle or inferior animals): v. fodder. Fig.: f. for Acheron, Acherontis p., Pl.: the f. of study and learning, p. studii atque doctrinae, Cic. Sen. 14, 49: v. nourishment.
      3. 3. ălĭmentum (whatever nourishes in any way): v. nourishment.
      4. 4. esca (that which is eaten: often food placed as bait: v. bait): the diver takes its f. diving into the water, mergus mergendo in aquam captat e., Varr. L. L. 5 (4), § 78: simple f., simplex e., Hor. S. 2, 2, 72: Mart. Adj., pertaining to f., escārius: vessels for f., vasa e., Pl.
      5. 5. daps, dăpis, f., (mostly poet.; and esp. of feasts): to feed horses on human food, i. e., flesh, humana d. pascere equos, Ov. Her. 9, 68: love of f. and fighting (of the eagle), amor dapis atque pugnae, Hor. Od. 4, 4, 12.
      6. 6. ĕpŭlae, ārum (sumptuous or dainty viands; v. feast): the tables were set out with the most exquisite kinds of f., mensae conquisitissimis e. exstruebantur, Cic. Tusc. 5, 21, 62: loaded with all kinds of f. and wine, onerati epulis et vino, Sall. 76, fin.
      7. 7. pastus, ūs (of animals): to take their f., pastum (al. cibum) capessere, Cic. N. D. 2, 47, 121. Fig.: the f. of souls, p. animorum, Cic. Tusc. 5, 23, 66. Special terms: the f. of gladiators, gladiatoria sagina, Tac. H. 2, 88: food sold cooked, pŏpīna (strictly a cook-shop): Cic. (who always uses the word in contemptuous sense: cf. Phil. 3, 9, 20).
R&A Riddle & Arnold (1)
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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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• FOOD
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).