pabulum

Meaning

Noun

• Food or fodder, particularly that taken in by plants or animals.
• Material that feeds a fire.
• Food for thought.
• Bland intellectual fare; an undemanding diet of words.

Origin

• Borrowed from Latin pābulum ("food, nourishment; fodder or pasture for animals; nourishment for the mind#Noun"), from [[pāscō + -bulum, or directly from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-dʰlom (*peh₂- + *-dʰlom, variant of *-trom).