epulum

Possibly contracted from *edipulum, from edō.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈe.pu.lum/, [ˈɛ.pʊ.ɫũ]

epulum n or f pl (genitive epulī); second declension

1. feast, banquet
2. (in the plural) dishes, meats.
3. (in the plural, figuratively) food.

The plural form epulae may be used separately as a singular noun.

This noun is heterogeneous, having neuter second declension in the singular and feminine first declension in the plural.

Second declension.

It, however, may later be found in the standard Second declension.

• epulae
• epulāris
• epulō
• epulor

• epulum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• epulum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• epulum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• epulum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to load the tables with the most exquisite viands: mensas exquisitissimis epulis instruere (Tusc. 5. 21. 62)
    
  • (ambiguous) during dinner; at table: inter cenam, inter epulas
    
  • (ambiguous) to entertain, regale a person: accipere aliquem (bene, copiose, laute, eleganter, regio apparatu, apparatis epulis)
    
• epulum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers