Noun: vitaile
| Sg. | vitaile |
| Pl. | vitailes; vitaile |
Genitive
Dative
Sample Sentences
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It is not honeſt, it maye not auaunce / For to deale wyth ſuche porayle / But all wyth ryche and ſellers of vytayle (It is not honest, it may not advance / To deal with such poor people / But all with rich, and sellers of food) [1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Prologues”, in The Canterbury Tales (in Middle English), [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, “The Frere”, column 2, lines 246–248:]
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ffor thay may the avayll / when al this thyng is wroght' / stuf thi ship with vitayll, / ffor hungre that ye perish noght (For your own good after this thing [the Flood] is done, stuff your shop with provisions so as not to perish from hunger) [15th c., “Processus Noe cum filiis [Noah and the Ark]”, in Wakefield Mystery Plays; Re-edited in George England, Alfred W. Pollard, editors, The Towneley Plays (Early English Text Society Extra Series; LXXI), London: […] Oxford University Press, 1897, →OCLC, page 27, lines 154–155:]
Nouns inflected like vitaile
busshel,
difference,
locuste,
grace,
ounce,
pirie,
wyspe,
stage,
vitaile,
manere,
couple,
cubite,
norice,
perche,
playce,
pater noster,
vessel,
wonder,
game,
lege, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old French vitaile, from Latin victuālia. See: Latin Nouns '
victuālia'.
Verbs referencing "vitaile"
English Nouns
victual, Irish Nouns
biotáille.
Translations