English
pasture
Pasture comes from Latin pastūra ‘pasture, grazing ground’, from Proto-Indo-European *péh₂sti ‘to guard, to protect’, and ultimately from *peh₂-.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*peh₂-‘to protect, to ward’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*péh₂sti‘to guard, to protect’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*pāskōrreconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpāscor
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEpastūra‘pasture, grazing ground’
- Anglo-Normanc. 1066–1400pastour
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500pasture
- Englishearliest quotation 1590same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*peh₂-‘to protect, to ward’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*péh₂sti‘to guard, to protect’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*pāskōrreconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpāscor
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEpastūra‘pasture, grazing ground’
- Anglo-Normanc. 1066–1400pastour
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500pasture
- Englishearliest quotation 1590same form
Earliest quotation: 1590, Edmund Spenser, Book III, Canto X: “Ne euer is he wont on ought to feed,…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- ‘to protect, to ward’
food, company, father, pain, feed, pope, pattern, foster, companion, apparent, fur, penetration, papa, patriot, patron, fodder, perpetrator, fad, forage, accompaniment, paternal, paternity, pastoral, ayr, padre, perpetrate, patrician, panini, patrimony, pater, pav, père, pantaloons, compere, pannier, 59 more
through Proto-Indo-European *péh₂sti ‘to guard, to protect’
Today it means
noun Land, specifically, an open field, on which livestock is kept for feeding.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- / pasture