repast

Meaning

Verb

  • Usually followed by on or upon: to take food and drink; to feast, to feed.

Origin

  • + pāscō (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-).
  • Partly:
  • from Middle English repasten, either from repast, repaste or from Late Latin repāstus, the perfect passive participle of repāscō (see further at etymology 1); and
  • from repast.

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