The Latin word for to eat is
edere
Translations for to eat and their definitions
| edo | |
| 1. v. I eat. | |
| Tunc, modo edere volebat. - At that time, he just wanted to eat. | |
| 2. v. I give out, put or bring forth; eject, discharge. | |
| 3. v. I produce, bear, give birth to, yield, form, beget. | |
| 4. v. I put forth, publish, spread abroad, circulate. | |
| Cum tua non edas, carpis mea carmina, Laeli. - Because you do not publish your poetry, you criticize mine, Laelius. | |
| …cum ille asperrimam epistulam de se in vulgus edidisset. - …even though he had publicly circulated a most scathing letter about him. | |
| 5. v. I set forth, relate, tell, disclose, deliver, announce, declare. | |
| 6. v. I produce, perform, show, inflict, bring about, cause. | |
| 7. v. I raise up, lift, elevate. |
| comedo | |
| 1. v. I eat or chew up | |
| 2. v. I consume or devour | |
| 3. v. I fret or chafe | |
| 4. v. I waste or squander | |
| 5. n. A glutton, gormandizer. |
| manduco | |
| 1. v. (Classical Latin, deponent in Old Latin) I chew, gnaw on, masticate | |
| 2. v. (Late Latin, colloquial in Classical Latin) I eat | |
| 3. n. glutton | |
| 4. n. singular of manducus |
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