corn

Senso

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).

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/kɔːn/

Etimologia

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.