Repast
/rɪˈpɑːst/noun
A meal or the act of eating a meal.
Did you know?Repast entered English through French from a Latin root meaning “to feed again,” and its older relatives are tied to the same PIE root behind words for pasture, food, and feeding.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*pa-
“to feed, protect, or graze”
Latin
Latin
pascere
“to feed, cause to graze”
Latin
Latin
pastus
“fed; feeding, a meal”
Old French
Old French
repast
“a meal; food”
Middle English
English
repaste
“a meal, especially one taken after some interval”
Modern English
English
repast
“a meal”