pasto

Meaning

Noun

1. (masculine) pasture (land on which cattle can be kept for feeding)
2. (masculine) grass or herbage suitable for the grazing of livestock
3. (masculine) grazing (act of eating from a pasture)

Verb

first-person singular present indicative of pastar

pastar

1. (ambitransitive) to graze (eat grass from a pasture)
2. (colloquial, intransitive) to idle, to laze around

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Concepts

pasture

pasturage

pastureland

grazing

grazing land

land

lea

meadow

roughage

eatage

ley

forage

lare

grass

grassland

Synonyms

pastagem

pastos

prado

pastagens

Translations

pâture

pâturage

pasto

Weide

pradera

pré

prairie

weiland

pastura

pascolo

pastura

pābulātiō

βοσκότοπος

βοσκή

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈpas.tu/

Etymology

Inherited from Latin: pāstus

In summary

From Latin pāstus (“pasture”), perfect passive participle of pāscō (“to feed”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to protect”).