cibo

Learned borrowing from Latin cibus. Contrast Portuguese cevo and Spanish cebo (“bait”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.bo/

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• Rhymes: -ibo
• Hyphenation: cì‧bo

cibo m (plural cibi)

1. food

• Sicilian: cibu

cibo

1. first-person singular present indicative of cibare

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈki.boː/, [ˈkɪboː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.bo/, [ˈt͡ʃiːbo]

From cibus (“food”) +‎ -ō.

cibō (present infinitive cibāre, perfect active cibāvī, supine cibātum); first conjugation

1. to give fodder to animals, to fatten, fodder
   1. (reflexive, figurative) to stuff oneself
2. (Late Latin) to give food to people, to feed, nourish
   1. (reflexive) to take food

Conjugation of cibō (first conjugation)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	cibō	cibās	cibat	cibāmus	cibātis	cibant
	imperfect	cibābam	cibābās	cibābat	cibābāmus	cibābātis	cibābant
	future	cibābō	cibābis	cibābit	cibābimus	cibābitis	cibābunt
	perfect	cibāvī	cibāvistī	cibāvit	cibāvimus	cibāvistis	cibāvērunt, cibāvēre
	pluperfect	cibāveram	cibāverās	cibāverat	cibāverāmus	cibāverātis	cibāverant
	future perfect	cibāverō	cibāveris	cibāverit	cibāverimus	cibāveritis	cibāverint
passive	present	cibor	cibāris, cibāre	cibātur	cibāmur	cibāminī	cibantur
	imperfect	cibābar	cibābāris, cibābāre	cibābātur	cibābāmur	cibābāminī	cibābantur
	future	cibābor	cibāberis, cibābere	cibābitur	cibābimur	cibābiminī	cibābuntur
	perfect	cibātus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	cibātus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	cibātus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	cibem	cibēs	cibet	cibēmus	cibētis	cibent
	imperfect	cibārem	cibārēs	cibāret	cibārēmus	cibārētis	cibārent
	perfect	cibāverim	cibāverīs	cibāverit	cibāverīmus	cibāverītis	cibāverint
	pluperfect	cibāvissem	cibāvissēs	cibāvisset	cibāvissēmus	cibāvissētis	cibāvissent
passive	present	ciber	cibēris, cibēre	cibētur	cibēmur	cibēminī	cibentur
	imperfect	cibārer	cibārēris, cibārēre	cibārētur	cibārēmur	cibārēminī	cibārentur
	perfect	cibātus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	cibātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	cibā	—	—	cibāte	—
	future	—	cibātō	cibātō	—	cibātōte	cibantō
passive	present	—	cibāre	—	—	cibāminī	—
	future	—	cibātor	cibātor	—	—	cibantor
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		cibāre	cibāvisse	cibātūrum esse	cibārī	cibātum esse	cibātum īrī
participles		cibāns	—	cibātūrus	—	cibātus	cibandus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		cibandī	cibandō	cibandum	cibandō	cibātum	cibātū

• Galician: cebar
• Italian: cibare
• Portuguese: cevar
• Sicilian: civari
• Spanish: cebar

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cibō m

1. dative/ablative singular of cibus

• “cibo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cibo 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 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
    

From Latin cibus (“food”).

• Hyphenation: ci‧bo

cibo m (plural cibos)

1. (uncommon) food, especially for birds

   Synonyms: alimento, comida, cevo

2. (dialectal, informal) small portion of anything