pasco

See also: Pasco

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpas.ko/
• Rhymes: -asko
• Hyphenation: pà‧sco

Etymology 1

Noun

pasco m (plural paschi) (Variant of: pascolo)

1. pasture

   Synonym: pascolo

2. feeding
3. food

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

pasco

1. first-person singular present indicative of pascere

Anagrams

• caspo, posca, scapo, scopa

Latin

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Italic *pāskō, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to protect, shepherd”). Compare Ancient Greek ποιμαίνω (poimaínō, “to tend, feed, nourish”).

Cognates include Attic Greek ποιμήν (poimḗn, “shepherd”), Sanskrit पाति (pā́ti, “to protect”), Old English fōda and fēdan (English food and feed), Old Church Slavonic пасти (pasti, “to pasture”). Unrelated to Attic Greek βόσκω (bóskō, “to feed, to tend”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpaːs.koː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpas.ko]

Verb

pāscō (present infinitive pāscere, perfect active pāvī, supine pāstum); third conjugation

1. to feed, nourish, maintain, support

   Synonyms: nūtriō, sagīnō, pāscor, alō, sustentō, foveō

2. to pasture, drive to pasture, tend, attend
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 1.204:

     pāscēbatque suās ipse senātor ovēs

     and the senator himself was tending his own sheep

3. to feed, supply, cultivate, let grow
4. (of animals) to graze, browse
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.184–186:

     Nāvem in cōnspectū nūllam, trīs lītore cervōs
     prōspicit errantīs; hōs tōta armenta sequuntur
     ā tergō, et longum per vallīs pāscitur agmen.

     [There is] not a ship in sight, [but] he sees three stags wandering along the shore; their whole herds are following behind, the long band grazing through the valley.

5. (figuratively) to feast, delight, satisfy, feed, gratify
6. to consume, lay waste, ravage, desolate
7. (figurative, biblical, Ecclesiastical Latin) to tend to as a shepherd or pastor; cherish, nourish, care for, feed spiritually
   • Late 4th century, Jerome [et al.], transl., edited by Roger Gryson, Biblia Sacra: Iuxta Vulgatam Versionem (Vulgate), 5th edition, Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, published 2007, →ISBN, Psalmus (iuxta Hebraicum) 22:1–2, page 795, column 2:

     Dominus pascit me nihil mihi deerit / in pascuis herbarum adclinavit me super aquas refectionis enutrivit me

     The Lord tends me as a shepherd and nothing for me will be lacking / In pastures he causes me to lie down; on refreshing waters he nourishes me

Conjugation

   Conjugation of pāscō (third conjugation)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	pāscō		pāscis		pāscit		pāscimus		pāscitis		pāscunt
	imperfect	pāscēbam		pāscēbās		pāscēbat		pāscēbāmus		pāscēbātis		pāscēbant
	future	pāscam		pāscēs		pāscet		pāscēmus		pāscētis		pāscent
	perfect	pāvī		pāvistī, pāstī1		pāvit, pāt1		pāvimus, pāmus1		pāvistis, pāstis1		pāvērunt, pārunt, pāvēre1
	pluperfect	pāveram, pāram1		pāverās, pārās1		pāverat, pārat1		pāverāmus, pārāmus1		pāverātis, pārātis1		pāverant, pārant1
	future perfect	pāverō, pārō1		pāveris, pāris1		pāverit, pārit1		pāverimus, pārimus1		pāveritis, pāritis1		pāverint, pārint1
passive	present	pāscor		pāsceris, pāscere		pāscitur		pāscimur		pāsciminī		pāscuntur
	imperfect	pāscēbar		pāscēbāris, pāscēbāre		pāscēbātur		pāscēbāmur		pāscēbāminī		pāscēbantur
	future	pāscar		pāscēris, pāscēre		pāscētur		pāscēmur		pāscēminī		pāscentur
	perfect	pāstus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	pāstus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	pāstus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	pāscam		pāscās		pāscat		pāscāmus		pāscātis		pāscant
	imperfect	pāscerem		pāscerēs		pāsceret		pāscerēmus		pāscerētis		pāscerent
	perfect	pāverim, pārim1		pāverīs, pārīs1		pāverit, pārit1		pāverīmus, pārīmus1		pāverītis, pārītis1		pāverint, pārint1
	pluperfect	pāvissem, pāssem1		pāvissēs, pāssēs1		pāvisset, pāsset1		pāvissēmus, pāssēmus1		pāvissētis, pāssētis1		pāvissent, pāssent1
passive	present	pāscar		pāscāris, pāscāre		pāscātur		pāscāmur		pāscāminī		pāscantur
	imperfect	pāscerer		pāscerēris, pāscerēre		pāscerētur		pāscerēmur		pāscerēminī		pāscerentur
	perfect	pāstus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	pāstus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		pāsce		—		—		pāscite		—
	future	—		pāscitō		pāscitō		—		pāscitōte		pāscuntō
passive	present	—		pāscere		—		—		pāsciminī		—
	future	—		pāscitor		pāscitor		—		—		pāscuntor
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		pāscere			pāscī			pāscēns			—
future		pāstūrum esse			pāstum īrī			pāstūrus			pāscendus, pāscundus
perfect		pāvisse, pāsse1			pāstum esse			—			pāstus
future perfect		—			pāstum fore			—			—
perfect potential		pāstūrum fuisse			—			—			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		pāscendī		pāscendō		pāscendum		pāscendō		pāstum		pāstū

¹At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

Derived terms

• compāscō
• dēpāscō
• pāscor
• pāstus

Related terms

• pāscitō
• pāscuus
• pāstor

Descendants

• Aromanian: pascu, pashtiri
• Asturian: pacer, pasquiar
• Catalan: péixer
• Corsican: pascia
• Dalmatian: puoscro
• English: pasture, repast
• Old French: paistre
  • French: paître, pasteur
• Friulian: passi, paši
• Galician: pacer
• Italian: pascere
• Ladino: pastár (“פאסטאר”)
• Occitan: pàisser, pàsquer
• Portuguese: pascer, pastar, pastorar, pastorear
• Romanian: paște, paștere
• Sicilian: pàsciri
• Sardinian: paschere, paschi, pasci, pasciri, passere
• Spanish: pacer
• Venetan: pàser, pàsar

References

• “pasco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pasco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “pasco”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to feast one's eyes with the sight of..: oculos pascere aliqua re (also simply pasci aliqua re)
    
  • (ambiguous) to feed a flock (of goats): pascere gregem
    
  • (ambiguous) the herds are grazing: greges pascuntur (Verg. G. 3. 162)
    

Old Leonese

Etymology

Inherited from Latin pascuum.

Noun

pasco m

1. pasture, grazing
   • 1294 "Cuatro documentos asturianos del siglo xiii" by María Josefa Sanz Fuentes):

     con montes, fontes, prados, pascos, felgueras, molneras,

     with hills, fountains, fields, pastures, ferns, mills,

Descendants

• Asturian: pascu
• Leonese: pascu