# pasture
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English pasture, pastoure, borrowed from Anglo-Norman pastour, Old French pasture, from Latin pāstūra, from the stem of pāscō (“to feed, graze”).

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈpɑːs.tjə/, /ˈpɑːs.t͡ʃə/
* (US) IPA: /ˈpæs.t͡ʃɚ/, (dialectal) /ˈpæs.tɚ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: (UK) -ɑːstjə, (US, dialectal) -æstə(ɹ)

### Noun

pasture (countable and uncountable, plural pastures)
* Land, specifically, an open field, on which livestock is kept for feeding.
* Ground covered with grass or herbage, used or suitable for the grazing of livestock.
    Synonym: (dialectal) leasow
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 23:2:He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.
** 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iv]:So graze as you find pasture.
* (obsolete) Food, nourishment.
** 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:Ne euer is he wont on ought to feed, / But toades and frogs, his pasture poysonous […] .
** 1831 July 15, “Of the Blood”, in Western Journal of Health‎, volume 4, number 1, L. B. Lincoln, page 38:It was reserved for Christians to torture bread, the staff of life, bread for which children in whole districts wail, bread, the gift of pasture to the poor, bread, for want of which thousands of our fellow beings annually perish by famine; it was reserved for Christians to torture the material of bread by fire, to create a chemical and maddening poison, burning up the brain and brutalizing the soul, and producing evils to humanity, in comparison of which, war, pestilence, and famine, cease to be evils.

#### Derived terms

* black-headed pasture cockchafer
* pasture day moth
* pastureland
* pasture rose
* pasture thistle
* pasture tick
* put out to pasture

#### Translations
### Verb

pasture (third-person singular simple present pastures, present participle pasturing, simple past and past participle pastured)
* (transitive) To move animals into a pasture.
* (intransitive) To graze.
* (transitive) To feed, especially on growing grass; to supply grass as food for.
    The farmer pastures fifty oxen.
    The land will pasture forty cows.

#### Derived terms

* pasture out

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* Pasteur, Puertas, Supetar, tear-ups, tears up, uprates, upstare, uptears

## Friulian
### Etymology

From Latin pastūra, from pāstus.

### Noun

pasture f (plural pasturis)
* pasture
    Synonyms: passon, pasc

#### Related terms

* passi
* past
* pastôr

## Italian
### Noun

pasture f
* plural of pastura

### Anagrams

* perusta, ruspate, sparute, sputare, sputerà

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /paːsˈtuː.re/, [päːs̠ˈt̪uːrɛ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /pasˈtu.re/, [päsˈt̪uːre]

### Participle

pāstūre
* vocative masculine singular of pāstūrus

## Middle French
### Etymology

From Old French pasture.

### Noun

pasture f (plural pastures)
* pasture (grassy field upon which cattle graze)

#### Descendants

* French: pâture

### References

* pasture on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
* Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX$^e$ au XV$^e$ siècle (1881) (pasture, supplement)

## Old French
### Etymology

From Latin pastūra, from pāstus.

### Noun

pasture oblique singular, f (oblique plural pastures, nominative singular pasture, nominative plural pastures)
* pasture (grassy field upon which cattle graze)
** 1377, Bernard de Gordon, Fleur de lis de medecine (a.k.a. lilium medicine), page 165 of this essay:les bestes doivent estre nourries en bonnes pasturesthe animals must be fed on good pastures
* pasture (nourishment for an animal)

#### Descendants

* → Middle English: pasture
** English: pasture
* Middle French: pasture
** French: pâture
* Norman: pâtuthe (Jersey)