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7-letter words (1 found)

VICTUAL,

5-letter words (11 found)

AULIC,CAVIL,CITAL,CLAUT,CLAVI,CULTI,ICTAL,TICAL,VATIC,VAULT,VITAL,

4-letter words (22 found)

AITU,ALIT,CAUL,CLAT,CLIT,CUIT,CULT,LAIC,LATI,LATU,LITU,LUIT,TAIL,TALC,TALI,ULVA,VAIL,VALI,VATU,VAUT,VIAL,VITA,

3-letter words (27 found)

ACT,AIL,AIT,ALT,ALU,CAL,CAT,CIT,CUT,ITA,LAC,LAT,LAV,LIT,LUV,TAI,TAU,TAV,TIC,TIL,TUI,UTA,UVA,VAC,VAT,VAU,VIA,

2-letter words (9 found)

AI,AL,AT,IT,LA,LI,TA,TI,UT,

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Definitions and meaning of victual

victual

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈvɪtəl/, [ˈvɪtɫ̩]
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈvɪtəl/, [-ɾ(ə)ɫ]
  • Rhymes: -ɪtəl
  • Hyphenation: vic‧tual

Etymology 1

From Middle English vitaile, vitaylle (food; food and drink, especially as needed for sustenance; (usually in the plural) food and drink stores or supplies; rations; provision of food and drink as a military stipend; crops) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman vitaile, vitaille [and other forms] and Old French vitaile, vitaille, victaille (food, provisions, victuals) [and other forms] (modern French victuaille), from Late Latin victuālia, the neuter plural of victuālis (nutritional), from Latin victus (that which sustains life, diet, nourishment, provision) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship from nouns). Vīctus is derived from vīvō (to live; to be alive, survive; to reside in) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃- (to live)) + -tus (suffix forming action nouns from verbs).

The spelling of the modern English and French words has been influenced by Late Latin victuālia, though the pronunciation of the Middle English, Anglo-Norman, and Middle French words has been retained.

Noun

victual (plural victuals)

  1. (archaic) Food fit for human (or occasionally animal) consumption.
  2. (archaic, chiefly in the plural) Food supplies; provisions.
  3. (specifically, obsolete)
    1. Edible plants.
    2. (Scotland) Grain of any kind.
Alternative forms
  • victuall (obsolete)
  • vittle
Translations

See also

  • manavilins

Etymology 2

From Middle English vitailen (to provide (someone, a castle, a ship, etc., or oneself) with supplies of food, drink, or other needs; (figuratively) to load (a ship with troops and materiel); to fortify, nourish) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman vitailer, vitailler, and Old French vitailler, victuailler [and other forms], from vitaile, vitaille, victaille (food, provisions, victuals) (see further at etymology 1) + -er (a variant of -ier (suffix forming infinitives of first conjugation verbs)).

Verb

victual (third-person singular simple present victuals, present participle victualing or victualling, simple past and past participle victualed or victualled) (archaic)

  1. (transitive, reflexive, chiefly military, nautical) To provide (military troops, a place, a ship, etc., or oneself) with a stock of victuals or food; to provision.
  2. (intransitive, chiefly military, nautical) To lay in or procure food supplies.
  3. (intransitive) To eat.
Conjugation
Alternative forms
  • victuall (obsolete)
  • vittle
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References

Further reading

  • drink on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • food on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Source: wiktionary.org