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cibo

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See also: cibò, cìbó, and cibɔ

Italian

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Etymology 1

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Learned borrowing from Latin cibus. Contrast Portuguese cevo and Spanish cebo (bait).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.bo/
  • Audio (il cibo):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ibo
  • Hyphenation: cì‧bo

Noun

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cibo m (plural cibi)

  1. food
Descendants
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  • Sicilian: cibu

Etymology 2

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Verb

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cibo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of cibare
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Latin

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From cibus (food) +‎ .

Verb

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

  1. to give fodder to animals, to fatten, fodder
    1. (reflexive, figurative) to stuff oneself
  2. (Late Latin) to give food to people, to feed, nourish
    1. (reflexive) to take food
Conjugation
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Descendants
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

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cibō m

  1. dative/ablative singular of cibus

References

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  • cibo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • cibo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], 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

Portuguese

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Etymology

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From Latin cibus (food).

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: ci‧bo

Noun

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cibo m (plural cibos)

  1. (uncommon) food, especially for birds
    Synonyms: alimento, comida, cevo
  2. (dialectal, informal) small portion of anything