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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’s 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, London: Macmillan and Co.
to take food: cibum sumere, capere
to digest food: cibum concoquere, conficere
to be a great eater: multi cibi esse, edacem esse
to set food before a person: cibum apponere, ponere alicui
to take only enough food to support life: tantum cibi et potionis adhibere quantum satis est
delicacies: cibus delicatus
(ambiguous) to allay one's hunger, thirst: famem sitimque depellere cibo et potione
(ambiguous) to refresh oneself, minister to one's bodily wants: corpus curare (cibo, vino, somno)
(ambiguous) to abstain from all nourishment: cibo se abstinere