corn

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. (Commonwealth, uncountable, usually) Any cereal plant (or its grain) that is the main crop or staple of a country or region.
2. (Australia, Canada, New-Zealand, US, uncountable, usually) Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays.
3. (uncountable, usually) A grain or seed, especially of a cereal crop.
4. (uncountable, usually) A small, hard particle.
5. (uncountable, usually) A type of granular snow formed by repeated melting and refreezing, often in mountain spring conditions.
6. (Jamaica, Multicultural-London-English, slang, uncountable, usually) Bullets, ammunition, charge and discharge of firearms.
7. (Jamaica, slang, uncountable, usually) Money.

Verb

1. (Canada, US, transitive) To granulate; to form (a substance) into grains.
2. (Canada, US, transitive) To preserve using coarse salt, e.g. corned beef.
3. (Canada, US, transitive) To provide (an animal) with corn (typically maize; or, in Scotland, oats) for feed.
4. (obsolete, transitive) To render intoxicated.
5. (Jamaica, Multicultural-London-English, slang, transitive) To shoot up with bullets as by a shotgun (corn).

Conceptos

maíz

🌽

maiz

callo

trigo

salar

grano

zara

mijo turquesco

capí

granos

mies

trigo blando

Triticum aestivum

Zea mays

jinjillero

maíz de la india

panizo americano

trigo candeal

trigo de turquia

trigo harinero

trigo pan

trigo tierno

triticum sativum

triticum vulgare

whisky de maíz

maíz comun

maiz seco

harina de maiz

poner en salmuera

whiskey de maíz

zea mays

maìz

adobar

ojo de pollo

cereal

clavo

curar con sal

melodramático

aceite de maíz

callosidad

cereales

elote

Sinónimos

maize

grain

Indian corn

callus

callosity

wheat

cereal

salt

🧂

sweet corn

seed

blister

cereals

mealies

Zea mays

corn whisky

rice

🍚

wart

clavus

corn whiskey

pickle

common wheat

Indian corn

edible corn

cure

callous

scar

sorghum

spike

stalk

stem

tyle

weal

Avena

bread wheat

cereal grass

food grain

Hordeum

maise

rice and barley

kaffir corn

grain maize

Triticum aestivum

soft wheat

triticum sativum

triticum vulgare

cereal oat

common barley

salinate

corn-whiskey

Zea moys

Traducciones

maïs

🌽

Mais

milho

mais

granturco

Getreide

callo

cor

maïs

graan

eksteroog

Zea mays

eelt

καλαμπόκι

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/kɔːn/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: corn

Heredado de inglés antiguo: corn

Cognado con neerlandés: koren

Cognado con alemán: Korn

Cognado con danés: korn

Cognado con noruego bokmal: korn

Cognado con noruego nynorsk: korn

Cognado con sueco: korn

Cognado con albanés: grurë

Cognado con ruso: зерно́

Cognado con checo: zrno

Cognado con latín: grānum

Cognado con lituano: žirnis

Heredado de inglés medio: corne

Cognado con francés: cor

In summary

Inherited from Middle English corn, from Old English corn, from Proto-West Germanic *korn, from Proto-Germanic *kurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm (“grain; worn-down”), from *ǵerh₂- (“grow old, mature”).
Cognate with Dutch koren, German Low German Koorn, German Korn, Danish korn, Norwegian Bokmål korn, Norwegian Nynorsk korn and Swedish korn; see also Albanian grurë, Russian зерно́ (zernó), Czech zrno, Latin grānum and Lithuanian žirnis. Doublet of grain, gram, granum, and grao.
The sense maize (Zea mays) is an ellipsis of Indian corn that developed in 18th century North America.

Oraciones

Farmers cultivated corn , potatoes , wheat and oats .

Los agricultores cultivaron maíz, papas, trigo y avena.