Pronounced: oh-NYE-rick, adj
Notes: Not at all what I thought it meant!
Yesterday’s word
The word victual means “food usable by people”. The more common plural form means “supplies of food”. I think I have only seen the plural form of our word.
First usage
Our word came into English around 1300s
Background / Comments
Well, I ran across conflicting information when looking up information about this word. There is a word “vittles”, which one source says came into English before our word, so it cannot be just an alliterative misspelling of our word. However, another source says that “vittles” came into English around 1600. I may try to drag the singular word into conversation. Our word came from Middle English from Anglo-French from the Latin noun victus (nourishment; way of living), which is derived from the Latin word vivere (to live).
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