🍽️

food

Sentences

Meaning

Synonyms

Translations

Notes

Practice pronunciation

Extra tools

They took little food
🍽️

and slept at their oars .

(uncountable, usually) Any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.
(countable, usually) A foodstuff.
(figuratively, uncountable, usually) Anything that nourishes or sustains.
(Multicultural-London-English, uncountable, usually) Any illegal substance or illegal substances, drugs.

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fuːd/

Inherited from Middle English

Inherited from Old English

Cognate with Scots

Cognate with Low German

Cognate with Western Frisian

Cognate with Dutch

Cognate with Danish

Cognate with Swedish

Cognate with Icelandic

Cognate with Gothic

Cognate with Latin

In summary

From Middle English fode, foode, from Old English fōda (“food”), from Proto-West Germanic *fōdō, from Proto-Germanic *fōdô (“food”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to guard, graze, feed”). Cognate with Scots fuid (“food”), Low German föde, vöde (“food”), West Frisian fiedsel (“food”), Dutch voedsel (“food”) Danish føde (“food”), Swedish föda (“food”), Icelandic fæða, fæði (“food”), Gothic 𐍆𐍉𐌳𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 (fōdeins, “food”), Latin pānis (“bread, food”), Latin pāscō (“feed, nourish”, verb). Related to fodder, foster.