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

  1. food, fodder
    Synonym: epulae
  2. nourishment, sustenance
  3. (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

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

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
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