centeio

Meaning

rye (grass or its grains as food)

Concepts

rye

rye whisky

rye whiskey

Secale cereale

Translations

seigle

Roggen

segale

centeno

rogge

sègol

çewder

çexdar

çavdar

tarîgan

şilêl

açar

baçîk

σίκαλη

Pronounced as (IPA)

/sẽˈtej.u/

Etymology

Inherited from Latin: centēnus

Cognate with Galician: centeo

Cognate with Spanish: centeno

In summary

From Old Galician-Portuguese centẽo (“rye”), from Latin centēnus (“a hundred things”), from Latin centum (“a hundred”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm. Cognate with Galician centeo, and Spanish centeno. Doublet of Centeno.