cibo

cibo

See also: cibò, cìbó, and cibɔ

Italian

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin cibus. Contrast Portuguese cevo and Spanish cebo (bait).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.bo/
  • Audio (il cibo):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ibo
  • Hyphenation: cì‧bo

Noun

cibo m (plural cibi)

  1. food
Descendants
  • Sardinian: tzibu
  • Sicilian: cibu

Etymology 2

Verb

cibo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of cibare

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

    From cibus (food) + .

    Verb

    cibō (present infinitive cibāre, perfect active cibāvī, supine cibātum); first conjugation

    1. to give fodder to animals, to fatten, fodder
      1. (reflexive, figurative) to stuff oneself
    2. (Late Latin) to give food to people, to feed, nourish
      1. (reflexive) to take food
    Conjugation
    Descendants

    Etymology 2

    See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

    Noun

    cibō m

    1. dative/ablative singular of cibus

    References

    • cibo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • cibo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
      • (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

    Portuguese

    Etymology

    From Latin cibus (food).

    Pronunciation

     
    • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈsi.bu/ [ˈsi.βu]

    • Hyphenation: ci‧bo

    Noun

    cibo m (plural cibos)

    1. (uncommon) food, especially for birds
      Synonyms: alimento, comida, cevo
    2. (dialectal, informal) small portion of anything

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