cibus

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Of unknown origin. Perhaps borrowed from Ancient Greek κίβος (kíbos, "box, chest") / κίβισις (kíbisis, "pouch").

• (Classical Latin ) IPA ^(key): [ˈkɪ.bʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical ) IPA ^(key): [ˈt͡ʃiː.bus]

cibus m (genitive cibī ); second declension

1. food, fodder

   Synonyms: annōna , cibāria , commeātus

   • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE , Seneca Minor, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 1.2.3:

     Nōn prōdest cibus nec corporī accēdit quī statim sūmptus ēmittitur.

     Food provides no benefit nor joins with the body if it is immediately expelled.

2. nourishment, sustenance
3. (metonymic ) meal

Second-declension noun.

• cibālis
• cibārius
• cibicida
• cibō

• cibātiō
• cibātus

• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911), "cibus", in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 150
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), "cēterus", in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 112
• Thurneysen 1907 (cf. WH).

• "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, 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^[1] , 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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