pabulum

An Elementary Latin Dictionary

pābulum ī, n

1 PA-, food, nourishment, food for cattle, fodder, pasturage, grass : pecoris, S.: secare pabulum, Cs.: comparare, N.: hirundo Pabula parva legens, V.: pabula carpsit ovis, O.: Pabula canescunt, i. e. the grass , O.: caelestia, i. e. ambrosia , O.—Fig., food, nourishment, sustenance : animorum: dederat nova pabula morbo, O.