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Middle English
- fetayle, vetaille, vetel, victuayle, vitaill, vitaille, vitaylle, viteill, vitell, vittaille, vytayle
Etymology 1
From Old French vitaile,[1] from Latin victuālia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /viˈtɛi̯l(ə)/, /ˈvitəl(ə)/
Noun
vitaile (plural vitailes or vitaile)
- (primarily as a plural) That which provides nutrition; food, nourishment.
1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Prologues”, in The Canterbury Tales, ,
→OCLC; republished in [
William Thynne], editor,
The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, ,
:
[
Richard Grafton for]
Iohn Reynes ,
1542,
→OCLC,
“The Frere”, column 2, lines
246–248:
It is not honeſt, it maye not auaunce / For to deale wyth ſuche porayle / But all wyth ryche and ſellers of vytayle- It is not honest, it may not advance / To deal with such poor people / But all with rich, and sellers of food
- A ration or rations, victuals; one's store of food for journeying.
15th c., “Processus Noe cum filiis ”, in Wakefield Mystery Plays; Re-edited in George England, Alfred W. Pollard, editors, The Towneley Plays (Early English Text Society Extra Series; LXXI), London: Oxford University Press, 1897, →OCLC, page 27, lines 154–155:ffor thay may the avayll / when al this thyng is wroght' / stuf thi ship with vitayll, / ffor hungre that ye perish noght- For your own good after this thing is done, stuff your shop with provisions so as not to perish from hunger
- Food yielded from agriculture.
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Middle French vitaillier.
Verb
vitaile
- Alternative form of vitailen
References
Old French
Etymology
Latin victuālia, the nominative plural of victuālis, from victus, from the verb vīvō (“I live”).
Noun
vitaile oblique singular, f (oblique plural vitailes, nominative singular vitaile, nominative plural vitailes)
- (chiefly in the plural) provisions; vittle; food
Descendants
- → Middle English: vitaile, fetayle, vetaille, vetel, victuayle, vitaill, vitaille, vitaylle, viteill, vitell, vittaille, vytayle