victual

victual meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

Examples of victual in a sentence

• [T]he Making of Things Inalimentall, to become Alimentall, may be an Experiment of great Profit, for Making new Victuall.1631, Francis [Bacon], “VII. Century. [Experiments in Consort, Touching the Affinities, and Differences, of Plants, and Liuing Creatures...
• Man is not what one calls a happy animal; his appetite for sweet victual is so enormous.1837, Thomas Carlyle, “Contrat Social”, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC...
• And down a rocky pathway from the place / There came a fair-hair'd youth, that in his hand / Bare victual for the mowers: […]1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 56:
• 'Terence, this is stupid stuff: / You eat your victuals fast enough; / There can't be much amiss, 't is clear, / To see the rate you drink your beer.[']1896, A[lfred] E[dward] Housman, “[Poem] LXII”, in A Shropshire Lad, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company, The Bodley Head, published 1906...

Forms of victual

Origin of victual

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 vīctuālia, the neuter plural of vīctuālis (“nutritional”), from Latin vīctus (“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 vīctuālia, though the pronunciation of the Middle English, Anglo-Norman, and Middle French words has been retained.

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)).

Words formed from victual

• victualage
• victualless
• victualry
• revictual
• victualer
• victualler
• victualled
• victualling
• victualling bill
• victualling house
• victualling yard

Related words

• manavilins

Words that rhyme with victual

• little
• brittle
• acquittal
• skittle
• committal
• whittle
• spittle
• belittle
• it'll
• pittle
• wittol
• Bittle

Questions about victual

What does victual mean?

Victual means food fit for human (or occasionally animal) consumption.

What is victual in Hindi?

Victual in Hindi is आहार (āhār). See Victual meaning in Hindi.

How do you use victual in a sentence?

[T]he Making of Things Inalimentall, to become Alimentall, may be an Experiment of great Profit, for Making new Victuall.

What part of speech is victual?

Victual can be a noun or a verb.

How do you pronounce victual?

Victual is pronounced /ˈvɪtəl/ (UK).

What is the plural of victual?

The plural of victual is victuals.