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pabulum

pa·bu·lum

pabulum · pabula · pabulums

Food or fodder, particularly that taken in by plants or animalsFood or fodder, particularly that taken in by plants or animals.

UK/ˈpabjʊləm/US/ˈpæbjʊləm/

Значение

значений: 4

(исчисляемое, неисчисляемое)Food or fodder, particularly that taken in by plants or animals.
(исчисляемое, неисчисляемое)Material that feeds a fire.
(исчисляемое, переносно, неисчисляемое)Food for thought.
any substance that can be used as food
(исчисляемое, переносно, неисчисляемое)Bland intellectual fare; an undemanding diet of words.

Происхождение

Borrowed from Latin pābulum (“food, nourishment; fodder or pasture for animals; nourishmen

Borrowed from Latin pābulum (“food, nourishment; fodder or pasture for animals; nourishment for the mind, food for thought”), from pā(scō) (“to nourish”) + -bulum (suffix denoting an instrument), or directly from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-dʰlom (*peh₂- (“to protect, shepherd”) + *-dʰlom, variant of *-trom (suffix denoting a tool or instrument)).

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