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jentācŭlum, i, n. [jento], a breakfast, taken immediately after rising, by children, valetudinarians, etc. (whereas the prandium was not taken till towards noon): epulas interdum quadrifariam dispertiebat: in jentacula et prandia et cenas comissationesque, Suet. Vit. 13; Mart. 14, 233: me inferre Veneri vovi jam jentaculum, Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 72.

jentātĭo, ōnis, f. [jento], a breakfasting, breakfast, Firm. Math. 2, 10.

jento, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. [contr. for jejunito from jejunus], to breakfast: quod pulli jentent, Varr. ap. Non. 126, 14; Afran. ib.; Suet. Vit. 7: ut jentes, sero venis, Mart. 8, 67.