different between cereal vs congee

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French céréale (“having to do with cereal”), from Latin Cerealis (“of or relating to Ceres”), from Ceres (“Roman goddess of agriculture”), from Proto-Indo-European *?er- (“grow”), from which also Latin sincerus (English sincere) and Latin cr?sc? (“grow”) (English crescent).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?s???i???]
• Homophone: serial

Noun

cereal (countable and uncountable, plural cereals)

1. (countable) A type of grass (such as wheat, rice or oats) cultivated for its edible grains.
2. (uncountable) The grains of such a grass.
3. (uncountable) Breakfast cereal.

   Would you like some cereal?

   Which cereal would you like for breakfast?

Synonyms

• (edible grains): foodgrain

Hyponyms

• (Cereals) cereal; barley, fonio, maize/corn, millet, oats, rice, rye, sorghum, teff, triticale, wheat

Derived terms

Related terms

• crescent
• sincere

Translations

Further reading

• Lists of cereals at Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Carlee, alerce, claree, cleare, relace

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Cere?lis (“relating to Ceres”), from Cer?s (“goddess of agriculture”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /s?.?e?al/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /se.?e?al/

Noun

cereal m (plural cereals)

1. cereal (type of grass cultivated for edible grains)
2. (uncountable) cereal (the grains of such plants)
3. (in the plural) breakfast cereal (food processed from grains and eaten with milk)

Further reading

• “cereal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cereal” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “cereal” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “cereal” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Cere?lis (“relating to Ceres”), from Cer?s (“goddess of agriculture”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /s?.??ja?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?se.?i.?aw/, /?se.?e.?aw/
• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /?s?.??.?aw/, /?s?.??jaw/
• Homophone: serial

Noun

cereal m (plural cereais)

1. cereal (type of grass cultivated for edible grains)
2. (uncountable) cereal (the grains of such plants)
3. breakfast cereal (food processed from grains and eaten with milk)

Hypernyms

• (type of grass): gramínea

Hyponyms

• (Cereals) cereal; arroz, aveia, centeio, cevada, fonio, milhete/milheto, milho, sorgo, trigo, triticale

Related terms

Further reading

• “cereal” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Cere?lis (“relating to Ceres”), from Cer?s (“goddess of agriculture”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /?e?e?al/, [?e.?e?al]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /se?e?al/, [se.?e?al]

Noun

cereal m (plural cereales)

1. cereal (type of grass cultivated for edible grains)
2. (uncountable) cereal (the grains of such plants)
3. (in the plural) breakfast cereal (food processed from grains and eaten with milk)

Further reading

• “cereal” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?nd?i/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?nd?i?/

Etymology 1

From Old French congié (modern congé), from Latin comme?tus (“passage, permission to leave”), from comme? (“I go and come”), from con- + me? (“I go, I pass”). Figurative senses generally borrowed from developments in French congé.

Alternative forms

• conge [16th-17th c.]
• congé [from 18th c.]

Noun

congee (plural congees)

1. Leave, formal permission for some action, (originally and particularly):
   1. (obsolete) Formal permission to leave; a passport.
2. (obsolete) Formal dismissal; (figuratively) any dismissal; (originally & particularly humorously ironic) abrupt dismissal without ceremony.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:

     So courteous conge both did giue and take,
     With right hands plighted, pledges of good will.

3. (obsolete) Formal leavetaking; (figuratively) any farewell.
4. (obsolete, Scotland) A fee paid to make another go away, (particularly) alms to a persistent beggar.
5. (archaic) A bow, curtsey, or other gesture (originally) made at departure but (later) including at greeting or in obeissance or respect.
   • 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. IV, ch. 96:

     So saying, he bowed with a thousand apish congês, and presented his paper to Peregrine […] .

Derived terms

• give congee
• take congee

Verb

congee (third-person singular simple present congees, present participle congeeing, simple past and past participle congeed)

1. (archaic) To give congee, (particularly)
   1. (obsolete, transitive) To give formal permission to leave; to dismiss.
   2. (obsolete, transitive) To give formal permission to do something; to license.
2. (archaic) To take congee: to leave ceremoniously.
3. (archaic) To make a congee: to bow, curtsey, etc., (particularly dialectal) while leaving; (figuratively) to make obeissance, show respect, or defer to someone or something.

Etymology 2

From Tamil ????? (kañci), via Portuguese.

Alternative forms

• conjee

Noun

congee (usually uncountable, plural congees)

1. (Asian cooking) A type of thick rice porridge or soup, sometimes prepared with vegetables and/or meat.

Synonyms

• rice porridge; rice congee (hypercorrect)
• (Chinese English): porridge

Hyponyms

• (Korean, Thai contexts): jook, juk
• (Chinese contexts): zhou

Derived terms

• rice congee

See also

• (Portuguese): canja

Translations

See also

• Thesaurus:dim sum

References

• "congee | congé, n.²" & "v." in the Oxford English Dictionary, 1891.

Anagrams

• negoce