epulum

Possibly contracted from *edipulum, from edō.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈe.pu.lum/, [ˈɛpʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈe.pu.lum/, [ˈɛːpulum]

epulum n (genitive epulī); second declension

1. feast, banquet

   Synonyms: epulae, convīvium, dominium, cōmissātiō, fēsta, daps, alogia

2. (in the plural) dishes, meats.
3. (in the plural, figuratively) food.

The plural form epulae may be used separately as a plurale tantum.

This noun is heterogeneous, having neuter second declension in the singular and feminine first declension in the plural.

Second-declension noun (neuter) or first-declension noun.

It, however, may later be found in the standard Second-declension noun (neuter).

• epulae
• epulāris
• epulō
• epulor

• “epulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “epulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• epulum 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)
• epulum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to load the tables with the most exquisite viands: mensas exquisitissimis epulis instruere (Tusc. 5. 21. 62)
    
  • (ambiguous) during dinner; at table: inter cenam, inter epulas
    
  • (ambiguous) to entertain, regale a person: accipere aliquem (bene, copiose, laute, eleganter, regio apparatu, apparatis epulis)
    
• “epulum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers