pabulatio Latin · revision 33960

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [paː.bʊˈɫaː.ti.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [pa.buˈlat.t͡si.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''pābulātiō''' ''f'' (genitive pābulātiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|pābulor|-tiō|t1=to graze; to forage]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) [[m|la|pābulor]] comes from [[m|la|pābulum|t=fodder]], which de Vaan derives with [[m|la|pāscō|t=to feed, pasture]] from [[itc-pro|*pāþlo-]] and [[ine-pro|*peh₂-dʰlo-]], from the root [[ine-pro|*peh₂-s-|t=to protect, herd]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler find it first in Varro,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) who uses it of feeding ground for bees, warning against places without suitable pasture.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In farming it means pasture or feeding ground, as in Varro and Columella.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In military language it is the collecting of fodder, foraging: Caesar writes of keeping the enemy from plundering, foraging and laying waste, of an enemy who watched all the Roman foraging and corn-fetching parties, and of troops pressed for fodder or cut off from it.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The TLL notes that it is military in all its uses except in Solinus.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro of pasture for bees.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar of foraging parties.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella of pasture.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The collecting of [[m|en|fodder]], [[m|en|foraging]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Feeding ground, [[m|en|pasture]] (also for bees).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[pābulātor]]

+ * [[pābulor]]

+ * [[pābulum]]

+ * [[pāscō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}