pabulum

Meaning

1. Food or fodder, particularly that taken in by plants or animals.
2. Material that feeds a fire.
3. Food for thought.
4. Bland intellectual fare; an undemanding diet of words.

Synonyms

nutriment

food

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diet

aliment

comestible

nourishment

nutrition

victual

victuals

sustenance

eatable

feed

edible

pabulation

nutrient

provender

fare

viand

feedstuff

ingesta

foodstuff

scrawn

tabemono

khana

bellytimber

eating

vittle

fodder

eatables

forage

grub

mess

Hyphenated as

pa‧bu‧lum

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈpabjʊləm/

Etymology

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”)).