corn

Senso (Inglese)

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).

Concetti

mais

granturco

callo

granoturco

frumento

durone

🌽

mirino

grano

cereale

messe

occhio di pernice

formentone

Zea mays

grano di turchia

bibita di mais

avena

clavo

orzo

sorgo

olio di mais

granaglie

grano tenero

grano turco

Triticum aestivum

grano comune

grano per panificazione

granturco dell’india

triticum sativum

triticum vulgare

sinonimi

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

Traduzioni

maïs

🌽

Mais

maíz

🌽

milho

Getreide

cor

maiz

maïs

graan

eksteroog

Zea mays

eelt

καλαμπόκι

Hühnerauge

🌽

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/kɔːn/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: corn

Ereditato da inglese antico: corn

Affine olandese: koren

Affine tedesco: Korn

Affine danese: korn

Affine norvegese bokmål: korn

Affine norvegese nynorsk: korn

Affine svedese: korn

Affine albanese: grurë

Affine russo: зерно́

Affine ceco: zrno

Affine latino: grānum

Affine lituano: žirnis

Ereditato da inglese medio: corne

Affine francese: 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.

Frasi

Farmers cultivated corn , potatoes , wheat and oats .

Gli agricoltori coltivavano mais, patate, grano e avena.