starch

Senso (Inglese)

Noun

1. (uncountable) A widely diffused vegetable substance, found especially in seeds, bulbs and tubers, as extracted (e.g. from potatoes, corn, rice, etc.) in the form of a white, glistening, granular or powdery substance, without taste or smell, and giving a very peculiar creaking sound when rubbed between the fingers. It is used as a food, in the production of commercial grape sugar, for stiffening linen in laundries, in making paste, etc.
2. (countable) Carbohydrates, as with grain and potato based foods.
3. (uncountable) A stiff, formal manner; formality.
4. (uncountable) Fortitude.
5. (countable) Any of various starch-like substances used as a laundry stiffener.

Verb

To apply or treat with laundry starch, to create a hard, smooth surface.

Adj

Stiff; precise; rigid.

Concetti

amido

inamidare

fecola

apprettare

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appretto

insaldare

amiloide

amilaceo

granulo di amido

sinonimi

amylum

glue

paste

amyl

carbohydrate

farina

flour

size

stiffen

stiffness

goo

grainy

grass

meal

mucilage

broth

primness

starch grain

sizing

starched

starchy

rice-water

starch powder

amyloid

cooked rice

cream

thick fluid

clear-starch

fruits

cereal

Traduzioni

almidón

amidon

Stärke

amido

άμυλο

zetmeel

midó

amidonner

stärken

nişasta

نشاء

نشا

empeser

engomar

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/stɑɹt͡ʃ/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: starche

Ereditato da inglese antico: *stierċe

Affine olandese: sterk

Affine Middle Low German: sterke

Affine tedesco: Stärke

Affine svedese: stärkelse

Affine islandese: sterkja

Affine inglese: stark

In summary

From Middle English starche, sterche, from Old English *stierċe (“stiffness, rigidity, strength”), from Proto-West Germanic *starkī (“stiffness, rigidity, fortitude, strength”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sterg- (“stiff, rigid”).
Cognate with dialectal Dutch sterk (“strong”), Middle Low German sterke (“strength”), German Stärke (“strength", also "starch”), Swedish stärkelse (“starch”), Icelandic sterkja (“starch”). Related to English stark (“stiff, strong, vigorous, powerful”).