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pasco

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Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpa.sko/
  • Rhymes: -asko
  • Hyphenation: pà‧sco

Etymology 1

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Noun

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pasco m (plural paschi) (Variant of: pascolo)

  1. pasture
    Synonym: pascolo
  2. feeding
  3. food

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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pasco

  1. first-person singular present indicative of pascere

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Latin

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Etymology

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From Proto-Italic *pāskō, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to protect, shepherd”). Compare Ancient Greek ποιμαίνω (poimaínō, “to tend, feed, nourish”).

Cognates include Attic Greek ποιμήν (poimḗn, “shepherd”), Sanskrit पाति (pā́ti, “to protect”), Old English fōda and fēdan (English food and feed), Old Church Slavonic пасти (pasti, “to pasture”), Russian пища (pišča). Unrelated to Attic Greek βόσκω (bóskō, “to feed, to tend”).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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pāscō (present infinitive pāscere, perfect active pāvī, supine pāstum); third conjugation

  1. to feed, nourish, maintain, support
    Synonyms: nūtriō, sagīnō, pāscor, alō, sustentō, foveō
  2. to pasture, drive to pasture, tend, attend
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 1.204:
      pāscēbatque suās ipse senātor ovēs
      and the senator himself was tending his own sheep
  3. to feed, supply, cultivate, let grow
  4. (of animals) to graze, browse
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.184–186:
      Nāvem in cōnspectū nūllam, trīs lītore cervōs
      prōspicit errantīs; hōs tōta armenta sequuntur
      ā tergō, et longum per vallīs pāscitur agmen.
      [There is] not a ship in sight, [but] he sees three stags wandering along the shore; their whole herds are following behind, the long band grazing through the valley.
  5. (figuratively) to feast, delight, satisfy, feed, gratify
  6. to consume, lay waste, ravage, desolate
  7. (figurative, biblical, Ecclesiastical Latin) to tend to as a shepherd or pastor; cherish, nourish, care for, feed spiritually
    • Late 4th century, Jerome [et al.], transl., edited by Roger Gryson, Biblia Sacra: Iuxta Vulgatam Versionem (Vulgate), 5th edition, Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, published 2007, →ISBN, Psalmus (iuxta Hebraicum) 22:1–2, page 795, column 2:
      Dominus pascit me nihil mihi deerit / in pascuis herbarum adclinavit me super aquas refectionis enutrivit me
      The Lord tends me as a shepherd and nothing for me will be lacking / In pastures he causes me to lie down; on refreshing waters he nourishes me

Conjugation

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   Conjugation of pāscō (third conjugation)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present pāscō pāscis pāscit pāscimus pāscitis pāscunt
imperfect pāscēbam pāscēbās pāscēbat pāscēbāmus pāscēbātis pāscēbant
future pāscam pāscēs pāscet pāscēmus pāscētis pāscent
perfect pāvī pāvistī,
pāstī1 		pāvit,
pāt1 		pāvimus,
pāmus1 		pāvistis,
pāstis1 		pāvērunt,
pāvēre,
pārunt1
pluperfect pāveram,
pāram1 		pāverās,
pārās1 		pāverat,
pārat1 		pāverāmus,
pārāmus1 		pāverātis,
pārātis1 		pāverant,
pārant1
future perfect pāverō,
pārō1 		pāveris,
pāris1 		pāverit,
pārit1 		pāverimus,
pārimus1 		pāveritis,
pāritis1 		pāverint,
pārint1
passive present pāscor pāsceris,
pāscere 		pāscitur pāscimur pāsciminī pāscuntur
imperfect pāscēbar pāscēbāris,
pāscēbāre 		pāscēbātur pāscēbāmur pāscēbāminī pāscēbantur
future pāscar pāscēris,
pāscēre 		pāscētur pāscēmur pāscēminī pāscentur
perfect pāstus + present active indicative of sum
pluperfect pāstus + imperfect active indicative of sum
future perfect pāstus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present pāscam pāscās pāscat pāscāmus pāscātis pāscant
imperfect pāscerem pāscerēs pāsceret pāscerēmus pāscerētis pāscerent
perfect pāverim,
pārim1 		pāverīs,
pārīs1 		pāverit,
pārit1 		pāverīmus,
pārīmus1 		pāverītis,
pārītis1 		pāverint,
pārint1
pluperfect pāvissem,
pāssem1 		pāvissēs,
pāssēs1 		pāvisset,
pāsset1 		pāvissēmus,
pāssēmus1 		pāvissētis,
pāssētis1 		pāvissent,
pāssent1
passive present pāscar pāscāris,
pāscāre 		pāscātur pāscāmur pāscāminī pāscantur
imperfect pāscerer pāscerēris,
pāscerēre 		pāscerētur pāscerēmur pāscerēminī pāscerentur
perfect pāstus + present active subjunctive of sum
pluperfect pāstus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present — pāsce — — pāscite —
future — pāscitō pāscitō — pāscitōte pāscuntō
passive present — pāscere — — pāsciminī —
future — pāscitor pāscitor — — pāscuntor
non-finite forms active passive
present perfect future present perfect future
infinitives pāscere pāvisse,
pāsse1 		pāstūrum esse pāscī pāstum esse pāstum īrī
participles pāscēns — pāstūrus — pāstus pāscendus,
pāscundus
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
pāscendī pāscendō pāscendum pāscendō pāstum pāstū

1At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

Derived terms

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References

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  • “pasco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “pasco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • pasco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) to feast one's eyes with the sight of..: oculos pascere aliqua re (also simply pasci aliqua re)
    • (ambiguous) to feed a flock (of goats): pascere gregem
    • (ambiguous) the herds are grazing: greges pascuntur (Verg. G. 3. 162)

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin pascuum.

Noun

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pasco m

  1. pasture, grazing
    • 1294 "Cuatro documentos asturianos del siglo xiii" by María Josefa Sanz Fuentes):
      con montes, fontes, prados, pascos, felgueras, molneras,
      with hills, fountains, fields, pastures, ferns, mills,

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