pabulor Latin · revision 33793

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=116–27 BC, Varro|origins=ine-pro *peh₂-dʰlo-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈpaː.bʊ.ɫɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈpaː.bu.lor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''pābulor''' (present infinitive pābulārī, perfect active pābulātus sum); first conjugation, deponent^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|pābulum|-or|t1=fodder, food]], a deponent verb made from the noun, as Priscian already said.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan explains [[m|la|pābulum]] from the root of [[m|la|pāscō|t=to feed, graze]], [[itc-pro|*pāþlo-]] from [[ine-pro|*peh₂-dʰlo-]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Varro uses it of herds of cattle and goats that like crags and woods to graze in.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Of animals it is to graze, as Columella's goat that feeds quietly and slowly.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Of troops it is to collect fodder, to forage, often in Caesar, as when he sent three legions out foraging, and in Livy and Tacitus.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Columella also uses it transitively, of feeding olive trees with dung every third year.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro, of grazing herds.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar, of foraging troops.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella, of manuring olive trees.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # Of animals, to [[m|en|graze]], feed.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of troops, to [[m|en|forage]]; to seek food or a living.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(transitive)'' To feed (plants), [[m|en|manure]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[pābulātiō]]

+ * [[pābulātor]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[pābulātōrius]]

+ * [[pābulum]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}