pabulum
Betekenis (Engels)
- (countable, uncountable) Food or fodder, particularly that taken in by plants or animals.
- (countable, uncountable) Material that feeds a fire.
- (countable, figuratively, uncountable) Food for thought.
- (countable, figuratively, uncountable) Bland intellectual fare; an undemanding diet of words.
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Vertalings
Uitgespreek as (IPA)
/ˈpabjʊləm/
Etimologie (Engels)
Borrowed from Latin pābulum (“food, nourishment; fodder or pasture for animals; nourishment for the mind, food for thought”), from pā(scō) (“to nourish”) + -bulum (suffix denoting an instrument), or directly from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-dʰlom (*peh₂- (“to protect, shepherd”) + *-dʰlom, variant of *-trom (suffix denoting a tool or instrument)).
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