corn

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

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

Verb

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

Concepts

maïs

cor

blé

céréale

grain

graine

céréales

saler

cal

blé tendre

œil-de-perdrix

froment

blé turc

cor au pied

mièvrerie

Triticum aestivum

triticum sativum

triticum vulgare

Zea mays

blé ordinaire

blé panifiable

huile de maïs

épi

de maïs

tige

cors

whisky de maïs

zea mays

callosité

durillon

tylosis

maïs indien

bled

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/kɔːn/

Étymologie (Anglais)

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”). The sense "maize" is a clipping of Indian corn. 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.