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cereal
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)
- (countable) A type of grass (such as wheat, rice or oats) cultivated for its edible grains.
- (uncountable) The grains of such a grass.
- (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)
- cereal (type of grass cultivated for edible grains)
- (uncountable) cereal (the grains of such plants)
- (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)
- cereal (type of grass cultivated for edible grains)
- (uncountable) cereal (the grains of such plants)
- 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)
- cereal (type of grass cultivated for edible grains)
- (uncountable) cereal (the grains of such plants)
- (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.
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millet
English
Etymology 1
From late Middle English, borrowed from Middle French millet; from Latin milium, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *melh?- (“to grind, crush”), see also Ancient Greek ?????? (melín?, “millet”) and Lithuanian málnos (“millet”).
Pronunciation
- (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?m?l?t/
- Rhymes: -?l?t
Noun
millet (countable and uncountable, plural millets)
- Any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food, widely cultivated in the developing world.
Hyponyms
- (food grains): Urochloa deflexa (syn. Brachiaria deflexa; Guinea millet), Urochloa ramosa (syn. Brachiaria ramosa; brown-top millet), Coix lacryma-jobi (Job's tears, adlay millet), Digitaria exilis, Echinochloa, Eleusine coracana, Eragrostis tef, Panicum miliaceum, Urochloa ramosa (syn. Panicum ramosum), Panicum sumatrense, Paspalum scrobiculatum, Pennisetum glaucum, Setaria italica, Sorghum
Coordinate terms
- (Cereals) cereal; barley, fonio, maize/corn, millet, oats, rice, rye, sorghum, teff, triticale, wheat
See also
- Appendix:Grains
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- millet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Millet on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Etymology 2
From Turkish millet, from Ottoman Turkish ???? (millet), from Persian ???? (mellat), from Arabic ??????? (milla).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?m?l?t/
Noun
millet (plural millets)
- (historical) A semi-autonomous confessional community under the Ottoman Empire, especially a non-Muslim one.
- 2007, Elizabeth Roberts, Realm of the Black Mountain, Hurst & Co. 2007, page 14:
- […] in support for a common Serbian Orthodox Church, the one traditional institution permitted to exist under the Ottoman millet system which sought to rule subject peoples indirectly through their own religious hierarchies.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, page 262:
- Christians and Jews as People of the Book […] were organized into separate communities, or millets, defined by their common practice of the same religion, which was guaranteed as protected as long as it was primarily practised in private.
- 2007, Elizabeth Roberts, Realm of the Black Mountain, Hurst & Co. 2007, page 14:
Translations
French
Etymology
From mil +? -et; a diminutive of mil, from Latin milium, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *melh?- (“to grind, crush”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mi.j?/
Noun
millet m (usually uncountable, plural millets)
- millet (grain)
Further reading
- “millet” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Turkish
Etymology
From Arabic ??????? (milla).
Noun
millet (definite accusative milleti, plural milletler)
- nation
- Synonym: ulus
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