Latin

Noun

cibus m ‎(genitive cibī); second declension

1. food, fodder
2. nourishment, sustenance

Inflection

Second declension.

Derived terms

• cibō

Descendants

• Italian: cibo
• Portuguese: cevo, cibo
• Romanian: cib
• Sicilian: civu
• Spanish: cebo, cibo

References

• 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’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “cibus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, 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
    
• Thurneysen 1907 (cf. WH).