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repast

Meaninga feeding

Common meaning: a meal

‘again’ + ‘to feed, put to graze’ → repast

Journey through time

  1. Latinpāscō, pāstum‘to feed, put to graze’
  2. Frenchrepast
  3. Middle Englishrepastsource
  4. Englishrepast‘a meal’ · today

re- also in: reactrebelrelaxrepelreply

past also in: pastorpasture

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Latin pāscō ‘to feed, put to graze’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Lewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), entry pāscō, p. 1311 · dictionary scan

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pastorpasture

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