vitaile

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Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology 1

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From Old French vitaile,[1] from Latin victuālia.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /viˈtɛi̯l(ə)/, /ˈvitəl(ə)/

Noun

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vitaile (plural vitailes or vitaile)

  1. (primarily as a plural) That which provides nutrition; food, nourishment.
  2. A ration or rations, victuals; one's store of food for journeying.
    • 15th c., “Processus Noe cum filiis [Noah and the Ark]”, in Wakefield Mystery Plays; Re-edited in George England, Alfred W. Pollard, editors, The Towneley Plays (Early English Text Society Extra Series; LXXI), London: [] Oxford University Press, 1897, →OCLC, page 27, lines 154–155:
      ffor thay may the avayll / when al this thyng is wroght' / stuf thi ship with vitayll, / ffor hungre that ye perish noght
      For your own good after this thing [the Flood] is done, stuff your shop with provisions so as not to perish from hunger
  3. Food yielded from agriculture.
Derived terms
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Descendants
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  • English: victual, vittle
  • Scots: victual
  • Irish: biotáille

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Middle French vitaillier.

Verb

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vitaile

  1. Alternative form of vitailen

References

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  1. ^ vitaile, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 June 2018.

Old French

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Etymology

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Latin victuālia, the nominative plural of victuālis, from victus, from the verb vīvō (I live).

Noun

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vitaile oblique singularf (oblique plural vitailes, nominative singular vitaile, nominative plural vitailes)

  1. (chiefly in the plural) provisions; vittle; food

Descendants

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