pasture

English

Etymology

From Middle English pasture, pastoure, borrowed from Anglo-Norman pastour, Old French pasture, from Latin pāstūra, from the stem of pāscō (“to feed, graze”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑːs.tjə/, /ˈpɑːs.t͡ʃə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpæs.t͡ʃɚ/, (dialectal) /ˈpæs.tɚ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: (UK) -ɑːstjə, (US, dialectal) -æstə(ɹ)

Noun

pasture (countable and uncountable, plural pastures)

1. Land, specifically, an open field, on which livestock is kept for feeding.
2. Ground covered with grass or herbage, used or suitable for the grazing of livestock.

   Synonym: (dialectal) leasow

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 23:2:

     He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.

   • 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iv]:

     So graze as you find pasture.

3. (obsolete) Food, nourishment.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Ne euer is he wont on ought to feed, / But toades and frogs, his pasture poysonous […] .

   • 1831 July 15, “Of the Blood”, in Western Journal of Health‎^[1], volume 4, number 1, L. B. Lincoln, page 38:

     It was reserved for Christians to torture bread, the staff of life, bread for which children in whole districts wail, bread, the gift of pasture to the poor, bread, for want of which thousands of our fellow beings annually perish by famine; it was reserved for Christians to torture the material of bread by fire, to create a chemical and maddening poison, burning up the brain and brutalizing the soul, and producing evils to humanity, in comparison of which, war, pestilence, and famine, cease to be evils.

Derived terms

• black-headed pasture cockchafer
• pasture day moth
• pastureland
• pasture rose
• pasture thistle
• pasture tick
• put out to pasture

Translations

land on which cattle can be kept for feeding

• Afrikaans: weiveld
• Albanian: luadh (sq) f, shtrungë (sq) f
• Arabic: مَرْعًى m (marʕan), مَسْرَح m (masraḥ)
• Armenian: արոտ (hy) (arot), արոտավայր (hy) (arotavayr)
• Aromanian: pãshuni f
• Azerbaijani: otlaq (az), örüş (az)
• Bashkir: көтөүлек (kötöwlek)
• Belarusian: вы́пас m (výpas), вы́гул m (výhul), вы́ган m (výhan), па́ша f (páša)
• Bengali: চারণভূমি (bn) (caronbhumi)
• Bulgarian: па́сище n (pásište), па́сбище (bg) n (pásbište), па́ша (bg) f (páša)
• Burmese: စားကျက် (my) (ca:kyak)
• Catalan: prat (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᏠᎨᏏ (tlogesi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 牧場 / 牧场 (muk⁶ coeng⁴)

  Mandarin: 牧場 / 牧场 (zh) (mùchǎng), 牧草地 (mùcǎodì)

• Cornish: peurva f
• Czech: pastvina (cs) f
• Danish: græsgang c
• Dutch: weiland (nl), weide (nl) m or f
• Estonian: karjamaa
• Finnish: laidun (fi), laidunmaa (fi)
• French: pâture (fr) f, pâturage (fr) m, pré (fr) m, prairie (fr) f
• Friulian: pasture f, passon m, pasc m
• Galician: pasto (gl) m, campo (gl) m, prado (gl) m
• Georgian: საძოვარი (saʒovari)
• German: Weide (de) f

  Old High German: winne

• Greek: βοσκότοπος (el) m (voskótopos), λιβάδι (el) n (livádi)

  Ancient: βοτάνη f (botánē), νομός m (nomós)

• Hindi: चरागाह (hi) m (carāgāh), चरणभूमि f (caraṇbhūmi)
• Hungarian: legelő (hu)
• Icelandic: beitiland n
• Indonesian: padang rumput (id)
• Irish: féarach m
• Italian: pastura (it), pascolo (it)
• Japanese: 牧草地 (ja) (ぼくそうち, bokusōchi), 牧草 (ja) (ぼくそう, bokusō)
• Kazakh: жайылым (jaiylym)
• Khmer: តិណភូមិ (tenaʼphuum), វាលស្មៅ (viəl smaw)
• Korean: 목장(牧場) (ko) (mokjang), 목초지(牧草地) (mokchoji)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: لەوەڕگا (lewerrga)

  Northern Kurdish: çêregeh (ku)

• Kyrgyz: жайлоо (ky) (jayloo), жайыт (ky) (jayıt)
• Lao: ເຖື່ອນຫຍ້າ (thư̄an nyā), ໂຄຈະຣະພູມ (khō cha ra phūm), ທົ່ງຫຍ້າລ້ຽງສັດ (thong nyā līang sat)
• Latin: pāstus m, pāscuum n, pābulātiō f
• Latvian: ganības m
• Lithuanian: ganyklà f
• Macedonian: пасиште n (pasište)
• Malay: padang rumput
• Manchu: ᠨᡠᡴᡨᡝ (nukte)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: бэлчээр (mn) (belčeer)

  Mongolian: ᠪᠡᠯᠴᠢᠭᠡᠷ (belčiger)

• Norman: pâtuthe f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: beite n, beitemark m or f

  Nynorsk: beite n, beitemark f

• Occitan: pastura (oc) f
• Old English: lǣs f
• Old French: pasture f
• Ottoman Turkish: مرتع (mertaʿ), اوتلاق (otlak)
• Pashto: څړ m (caṛ), څړځاي m (caṛjāy)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: چَراگاه (čarâgâh), مَسْرَح (masrah)

• Plautdietsch: Weid f, Jräs f
• Polabian: postvaistĕ n
• Polish: pastwisko (pl) n
• Portuguese: pasto (pt), pastadouro m, pastadoiro m
• Romanian: pășune (ro), imaș (ro) n
• Russian: па́стбище (ru) n (pástbišče), вы́пас (ru) m (výpas), вы́гон (ru) m (výgon)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: па̏шња̄к m

  Roman: pȁšnjāk (sh) m

• Sicilian: pastura (scn) f
• Slovak: pastvina f, pasienok m
• Slovene: pašnik m
• Spanish: pasto (es) m, pradera (es), dehesa (es) f, prado (es) m, acampo (es) m, pastizal (es) m
• Swedish: betesmark (sv) c, bete (sv) n, beteshage c
• Tajik: чарогоҳ (čarogoh)
• Tatar: көтүлек (tt) (kötülek)
• Thai: ทุ่งหญ้า (th) (tûng-yâa), ทุ่งเลี้ยงสัตว์ (tûng-líiang-sàt), ทุ่งหญ้าเลี้ยงสัตว์ (tûng-yâa-líiang-sàt)
• Turkish: otlak (tr), mera (tr)
• Turkmen: öri
• Ukrainian: ви́пас m (výpas), ви́гін m (výhin), пасови́ще n (pasovýšče), пасови́сько n (pasovýsʹko)
• Urdu: چَرا گاہ m (carā gāh), چَراگاہ m (carāgāh)
• Uyghur: ئوتلاق (otlaq)
• Uzbek: yaylov (uz), oʻtloq (uz)
• Venetan: pastura f
• Vietnamese: bãi chăn, đồng cỏ (vi)
• Welsh: porfa (cy) f, porfeydd (cy) f pl
• Yakut: мэччирэҥ (meccireñ)

Verb

pasture (third-person singular simple present pastures, present participle pasturing, simple past and past participle pastured)

1. (transitive) To move animals into a pasture.
2. (intransitive) To graze.
3. (transitive) To feed, especially on growing grass; to supply grass as food for.

   The farmer pastures fifty oxen.

   The land will pasture forty cows.

Derived terms

• pasture out

Translations

to herd animals into a pasture

• Afrikaans: wei
• Armenian: արածեցնել (hy) (aracecʻnel)
• Bulgarian: паса (bg) (pasa)
• Catalan: pasturar (ca)
• Finnish: laiduntaa (fi)
• German: weiden (de)
• Greek: βόσκω (el) (vósko)
• Hungarian: legeltet (hu)
• Italian: pascolare (it)
• Japanese: 放牧する (ほうぼくする, hōboku suru)
• Old English: lǣswian
• Polish: paść (pl)
• Quechua: michiy
• Romanian: păstori (ro), pășuna (ro), paște (ro)
• Russian: пасти́ (ru) (pastí)
• Spanish: pastar (es)

graze — see graze

Anagrams

• Pasteur, Puertas, Supetar, tear-ups, tears up, uprates, upstare, uptears

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin pastūra, from pāstus.

Noun

pasture f (plural pasturis)

1. pasture

   Synonyms: passon, pasc

Related terms

• passi
• past
• pastôr

Italian

Noun

pasture f

1. plural of pastura

Anagrams

• perusta, ruspate, sparute, sputare, sputerà

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /paːsˈtuː.re/, [päːs̠ˈt̪uːrɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pasˈtu.re/, [päsˈt̪uːre]

Participle

pāstūre

1. vocative masculine singular of pāstūrus

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French pasture.

Noun

pasture f (plural pastures)

1. pasture (grassy field upon which cattle graze)

Descendants

• French: pâture

References

• pasture on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (pasture, supplement)

Old French

Etymology

From Latin pastūra, from pāstus.

Noun

pasture oblique singular, f (oblique plural pastures, nominative singular pasture, nominative plural pastures)

1. pasture (grassy field upon which cattle graze)
   • 1377, Bernard de Gordon, Fleur de lis de medecine (a.k.a. lilium medicine), page 165 of this essay:

     les bestes doivent estre nourries en bonnes pastures

     the animals must be fed on good pastures

2. pasture (nourishment for an animal)

Descendants

• → Middle English: pasture
  • English: pasture
• Middle French: pasture
  • French: pâture
• Norman: pâtuthe (Jersey)