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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-1247/
- Published: 2023-06-29T18:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-05-01T20:20:25.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 22:22

The word for today is…

victual (noun, verb):

*noun*  
1: food usable by people  
2 victuals plural : supplies of food : provisions

*verb*  
1: eat  
2: to lay in provisions

Source : [Merriam -Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/victual?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : The word derives via the Middle English and Anglo-French vitaille from the Late Latin plural noun victualia (“provisions”), and ultimately (by way of victus, meaning “nourishment” or “way of living”) the Latin verb vivere, meaning “to live.” Vivere is the source of a whole smorgasbord of other English words, such as vital, vivid, and survive. It’s also the root of viand, another English word referring to food. There’s also vittles, a word that sounds like it might be an alteration of the plural victuals (both are pronounced /VIT-ulz/) but which is actually just an earlier development of the Middle English vitaille that was served before victual.

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