cibus

== Latin == === Etymology === Of unknown origin. Perhaps borrowed from Ancient Greek κίβος (kíbos, “box, chest”) / κίβισις (kíbisis, “pouch”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkɪ.bʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈt͡ʃiː.bus] === Noun === cibus m (genitive cibī); second declension food, fodder Synonyms: annōna, cibāria, commeātus nourishment, sustenance (metonymic) meal ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== cibālis cibārius cibicida cibō ==== Related terms ==== cibātiō cibātus ==== Descendants ==== === References === Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911), “cibus”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 150 De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “cēterus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 112 Thurneysen 1907 (cf. WH). === Further reading === “cibus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “cibus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "cibus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “cibus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.