corn

Signification (Anglais)

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).

Concepts

maïs

🌽

cor

blé

céréale

grain

céréales

graine

cal

froment

œil-de-perdrix

blé tendre

saler

🧂

Zea mays

blé ordinaire

blé panifiable

triticum sativum

triticum vulgare

blé turc

whisky de maïs

maïs indien

zea mays

tylosis

cors

épi

👂

tige

huile de maïs

bled

callosité

cor au pied

durillon

mièvrerie

de maïs

Triticum aestivum

Synonymes

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

Traductions

Mais

maíz

🌽

milho

mais

granturco

Getreide

callo

maiz

maïs

eksteroog

Zea mays

eelt

graan

καλαμπόκι

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/kɔːn/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: corn

Hérité de ancien anglais: corn

Appartenant à néerlandais: koren

Appartenant à allemand: Korn

Appartenant à danois: korn

Appartenant à norvégien bokmål: korn

Appartenant à norvégien nynorsk: korn

Appartenant à suédois: korn

Appartenant à albanais: grurë

Appartenant à russe: зерно́

Appartenant à tchèque: zrno

Appartenant à latin: grānum

Appartenant à lituanien: žirnis

Hérité de moyen anglais: corne

Appartenant à français: 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.

Phrases

Farmers cultivated corn , potatoes , wheat and oats .

Les agriculteurs ont cultivé du maïs, des pommes de terre, du blé et de l'avoine.