Italian

Noun

cibo m ‎(plural cibi)

1. food

Descendants

• Sicilian: cibu

Etymology 2

Verb

cibo

1. first-person singular present indicative of cibare

Related terms

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈki.boː/

Etymology 1

From cibus ‎(“food”) +‎ -ō.

Verb

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

1. I feed, give food to animals
2. (in passive) I take food.
3. (Late Latin) I give a person to animals as food.

Inflection

Related terms

Descendants

• Italian: cibare
• Portuguese: cevar
• Spanish: cebar

Etymology 2

Noun

cibō m

1. dative singular of cibus
2. ablative singular of cibus

References

• cibo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “cibo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, 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