fodder

English

Etymology

Old English fōdor, from Proto-Germanic *fōdran (compare Dutch voer 'pasture, fodder', German Futter 'feed', Swedish foder), from *fōda 'food', from Proto-Indo-European *pat- 'to feed'. More at food.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɒdə(r)

Noun

fodder (uncountable)

1. Food for animals.
2. A weight by which lead and some other metals were formerly sold, in England, varying from 19 1/2 to 24 cwt (993 to 1222 kg).; a fodder.
   • 1866, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 1, p. 168:

     Now measured by the old hundred, that is, 108 lbs. the charrus contains nearly 19 1/2 hundreds, that is it corresponds to the fodder, or fother, of modern times.

3. (slang, drafting, design) Tracing paper.

Synonyms

• (animal food): provender

Derived terms

• cannon fodder

Translations

food for animals

Armenian: կեր (hy) (ker) Bulgarian: фураж Chinese: 飼料, 饲料 (sìliào) Czech: krmivo (cs) n. Danish: foder (da) Dutch: veevoeder n., veevoer, kanonnenvoer (cannon fodder) Estonian: sööt (et) Finnish: rehu (fi) French: fourrage (fr) m. German: Futter (de) n. Greek: χορτονομή (el) (chortonomí) f. Hungarian: abrak (hu), takarmány (hu) Italian: foraggio (it) m. Japanese: 餌 (ja) (えさ, esa; え, e), 飼料 (ja) (しりょう, shiryō)

Kannada: ಪ್ರಾಣಿಗಳ ಆಹಾರ (kn) (prāṇigaḷa āhāra) Korean: 꼴 (kkol) (grass), 먹이 (meogi), 사료 (飼料, saryo) Kurdish: ئالیک (ku) (alik) Latin: cibus (la), pābulum (la) n. Macedonian: крма (mk) (k'rma) f., сточна храна (mk) (stóčna hrána) f., помија (mk) (pómija) f. Polish: karma (pl) f. (for pets), obrok (pl) m. (for horses), pasza (pl) f. (for other animals) Portuguese: forragem (pt) f. Romanian: furaj (ro), nutreț (ro), strânsură (ro) Russian: корм (ru) (korm) m. Serbian: крма (sr), крмиво (sr), сплачина (sr), помиjа (sr) Spanish: forraje (es) m. Swedish: foder (sv) n. Turkish: yem (tr) Võro: süüt

Verb

fodder (third-person singular simple present fodders, present participle foddering, simple past and past participle foddered)

1. (dialect)To feed animals (with fodder).

Anagrams

• forded