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Added 7 October 2026

feed

/fiːd/ verb

In Latin: alō, pascō, nutriō Wiktionary

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To give (someone or something) food to eat.
Feed the dog every evening.
To eat .
Spiders feed on gnats and flies.
To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.
Don't feed him too much; he's still a baby.

noun

Food given to (especially herbivorous) non-human animals.
They sell feed, riding helmets, and everything else for horses.
Something supplied continuously.
a satellite feed
The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon.
the paper feed of a printer

verb

simple past and past participle of fee

Origin

From Middle English feden, from Old English fēdan (“to feed”), from Proto-West Germanic *fōdijan, from Proto-Germanic *fōdijaną (“to feed”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to guard, graze, feed”). Cognate with West Frisian fiede (“to nourish, feed”), Dutch voeden (“to feed”), Danish føde (“to bring forth, feed”), Swedish föda (“to bring forth, feed”), Icelandic fæða (“to feed”), and more distantly with Latin pāscō (“feed, nourish”, verb) through Indo-European. More at food, fodder.

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