food: [OE] Food and its Germanic relatives, German futter ‘fodder’, Dutch voedsel ‘food’, and Swedish föda ‘food’, all go back ultimately to a prehistoric Indo-European base *pā-, *pī-, which also produced Latin pābulum ‘fodder’, Russian pisca ‘food’, and Czech pice ‘fodder’. The immediate source of all the Germanic forms was *fōth-, which had two important derivatives: *fōthram, which gave English fodder [OE] and (via Old French) forage [14] and foray [14] (etymologically probably a ‘search for food’); and *fōstrom, source of English foster. => feed, fodder, forage, foray, foster
food (n.)
Middle English foode, fode, from Old English foda "food, nourishment; fuel," also figurative, from Proto-Germanic *fodon (cognates: Swedish föda, Danish föde, Gothic fodeins), from Germanic *fod- "food," from PIE *pat-, extended form of root *pa- "to tend, keep, pasture, to protect, to guard, to feed" (cognates: Greek pateisthai "to feed;" Latin pabulum "food, fodder," panis "bread," pasci "to feed," pascare "to graze, pasture, feed," pastor "shepherd," literally "feeder;" Avestan pitu- "food;" Old Church Slavonic pasti "feed cattle, pasture;" Russian pishcha "food").
Food-chain is from 1917. Food-poisoning attested by 1864; food-processor in the kitchen appliance sense from 1973; food-stamp (n.) is from 1962.
双语例句
1. The word " food " may connote " greed ".
“ food ” 这个词可以含有 “ 贪婪 ” 的意思.
来自《简明英汉词典》
2. Megamalls and fast food restaurants line the highway system.
公路系统沿线有大型商场和快餐店。
来自柯林斯例句
3. Wash your hands thoroughly with hot soapy water before handling any food.
在拿吃的之前，用热肥皂水把手好好地洗干净。
来自柯林斯例句
4. The shallow sea bed yields up an abundance of food.
浅海床提供了丰富的食物。
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5. Many are orphans, their parents killed as they scavenged for food.
