epulae

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɛ.pʊ.ɫae̯]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɛː.pu.le]

epulae

1. nominative/vocative plural of epulum
2. inflection of epula:
   1. genitive/dative singular
   2. nominative/vocative plural

epulae f pl (genitive epulārum); first declension

1. a feast or banquet, particularly one during a religious or public festival

   Synonyms: epulum, convīvium, dominium, cōmissātiō, fēsta, daps, alogia

2. dishes; meats
3. (figuratively) food

   Synonym: cibus

First-declension noun, plural only.

• “epulae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “epulae”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "epulae", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “epulae”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], 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)