oat

Meaning

Noun

1. (uncountable) Widely cultivated cereal grass, typically Avena sativa.
2. (countable) Any of the numerous species, varieties, or cultivars of any of several similar grain plants in genus Avena.
3. (countable, uncountable, usually) The seeds of the oat, a grain, harvested as a food crop and for animal feed.
4. (countable, uncountable) A simple musical pipe made of oat-straw.
5. (countable, uncountable) The tiniest amount; a whit or jot.

PrepPhrase

Alternative letter-case form of OAT.

Synonyms

oats

corn

🌽

grain

oaten

wheat

Avena

Avena sativa Linn.

barley

cereal oat

Translations

Hafer

avoine

avena

avena

aveia

haver

avena

βρώμη

yulaf

biada

civada

Haber

avena

βρόμη

Pronounced as (IPA)

/əʊt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: ote

Inherited from Old English: āte

Cognate with Scots: ait

Cognate with Dutch: oot

Cognate with Saterland Frisian: Aate

Cognate with Low German: Aat

Cognate with Luxembourgish: Otz

Cognate with Icelandic: át

Cognate with German: Eiter

In summary

Inherited from Middle English ote, from Old English āte, from Proto-Germanic *aitǭ (“swelling; gland; nodule”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyd- (“to swell”). See English atter.
Cognates
Germanic: cognate with Scots ait (“oat”), Dutch oot, aat (“oat”), Saterland Frisian Aate (“pea”), German Low German Aat ‘oat’, obsolete Luxembourgish Otz ‘oat’, Icelandic át ‘feed, fodder’. Further related to Icelandic eitill (“nodule”), Norwegian Bokmål eitel (“knot, gland”), Norwegian Nynorsk eitel (“knot, gland”), Old High German eiz (“abscess”) (German Eiter (“pus”), Eiß (“ulcer”)), Dutch etter (“pus”), Saterland Frisian eitel (“fast, raging”), Old Norse eitill (“nodule”), West Frisian iete
Indo-European: Latin aemidus (“swollen, protuberant”), Old Church Slavonic ꙗдъ (jadŭ, “poison”), Ancient Greek οἰδέω (oidéō, “to swell”), Albanian ënjt (“to swell, inflame”), Old Armenian այտնում (aytnum, “to swell”), այտ (ayt, “cheek”), Sanskrit इन्दु (índu, “water drop”)