different between corn vs plantain

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k??n/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /k??n/
• Rhymes: -??(?)n

Etymology 1

From Middle English corn, from Old English corn, from Proto-Germanic *kurn?, from Proto-Indo-European *?r?h?nóm (“grain; worn-down”), from *?erh?- (“grow old, mature”). Cognate with Dutch koren, German Low German Koorn, German Korn, Norwegian Bokmål korn, Norwegian Nynorsk korn and Swedish korn; see also Albanian grurë, Russian ?????? (zernó), Czech zrno, Latin gr?num, Lithuanian žirnis and English grain.

In sense 'maize' a shortening from earlier Indian corn.

Noun

corn (usually uncountable, plural corns)

1. (Britain, uncountable) The main cereal plant grown for its grain in a given region, such as oats in parts of Scotland and Ireland, and wheat or barley in England and Wales.
2. (US, Canada, Australia, uncountable) Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays.
3. A grain or seed, especially of a cereal crop.

4. A small, hard particle.
5. (MLE, slang, uncountable) bullets, ammunition, charge and discharge of firearms

Derived terms

Descendants

• Tok Pisin: kon
• ? Maori: k?nga

Translations

See also

Verb

corn (third-person singular simple present corns, present participle corning, simple past and past participle corned)

1. (US, Canada) to granulate; to form a substance into grains

2. (US, Canada) to preserve using coarse salt, e.g. corned beef
3. (US, Canada) to provide with corn (typically maize; or, in Scotland, oats) for feed

4. (transitive) to render intoxicated

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English corne, from Old French corn (modern French cor), from Latin cornu.

Noun

corn (plural corns)

1. A type of callus, usually on the feet or hands.

   Synonym: clavus

Hyponyms

• callus

Translations

Etymology 3

This use was first used in 1932, as corny, something appealing to country folk.

Noun

corn (uncountable)

1. (US, Canada) Something (e.g. acting, humour, music, or writing) which is deemed old-fashioned or intended to induce emotion.
   • 1975, Tschirlie, Backpacker magazine,

     He had a sharp wit, true enough, but also a good, healthy mountaineer's love of pure corn, the slapstick stuff, the in-jokes that get funnier with every repetition and never amuse anybody who wasn't there.

Derived terms

Etymology 4

From the resemblance to white corn kernels.

Noun

corn (uncountable)

1. (uncountable) A type of granular snow formed by repeated melting and refreezing, often in mountain spring conditions.

   Synonym: corn snow

References

Anagrams

• Cron

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin corn?, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *?erh?- (“horn”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?k??n/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?k?rn/

Noun

corn m (plural corns)

1. horn (of animal)

   Synonym: banya

2. (music) horn

Derived terms

• corn anglès
• cornar

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish corn (“drinking horn, goblet; trumpet, horn; curl”), from Latin corn?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ko???n??/

Noun

corn m (genitive singular coirn, nominative plural coirn)

1. horn (musical instrument)
2. drinking-horn

   Synonyms: corn óil, buabhall

3. (sports) cup
4. (racing) plate

Declension

Derived terms

Verb

corn (present analytic cornann, future analytic cornfaidh, verbal noun cornadh, past participle corntha)

1. (transitive) roll, coil

Conjugation

Alternative forms

• cornaigh, cornáil

Mutation

Further reading

• "corn" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “corn” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “corn” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Middle English

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English corn; from Proto-Germanic *kurn?, from Proto-Indo-European *?r?h?nóm. Doublet of greyn.

Alternative forms

• corne, korn, coorn, curn, coren, koren

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?rn/, /k??rn/, /kurn/

Noun

corn (plural corn or cornes)

1. Any plant that bears grain, especially wheat.
2. A field planted with such plants.
3. Any kind of grain (especially as food)
4. A seed of a non-grain plant.
5. A grain or seed used as a unit of weight.
6. The optimum product; the superior portion.
7. The deserving; those who are morally right.
8. A bole (external tumourous growth).

Related terms

• corny
• kernel
• peper corn

Descendants

• English: corn (see there for further descendants)
• Scots: corn, curn
• Yola: koorn, coorn

References

• “c??rn, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-08.

Etymology 2

Noun

corn

1. Alternative form of corne (“callus”)

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *kurn?, from Proto-Indo-European *?r?h?nóm (“grain”). Cognate with Old Frisian korn, Old Saxon korn (Low German Koorn), Dutch koren, Old High German korn, Old Norse korn, Gothic ???????????????????? (kaurn).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /korn/, [kor?n]

Noun

corn n

1. corn, a grain or seed
   • 880-1150, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

2. a cornlike pimple, a corn on the foot

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: corn, corne, korn, coorn, curn, coren, koren
  • English: corn (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: corn, curn
  • Yola: koorn, coorn

Old French

Alternative forms

• cor, corne

Etymology

From Latin corn?.

Noun

corn m (oblique plural corns, nominative singular corns, nominative plural corn)

1. horn (bony projection found on the head of some animals)
2. horn (instrument used to create sound)

   Synonyms: olifan, graisle

Descendants

• French: cor

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [korn]

Etymology 1

From Latin corn?, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *?erh?- (“horn”).

Noun

corn n (plural coarne)

1. horn

Declension

Derived terms

• încorna
• corn?ri
• cornos

Related terms

• cornut

Etymology 2

From Latin cornus.

Noun

corn m (plural corni)

1. cornel, European cornel, Cornus mas
2. rafter (of a house)

Declension

Related terms

• coarn?

See also

• sânger

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English corn, from Old English corn.

Noun

corn (plural corns)

1. corn
2. oats
3. (in plural) crops (of grain)

Verb

corn (third-person singular present corns, present participle cornin, past cornt, past participle cornt)

1. to feed (a horse) with oats or grain

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin corn?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?rn/

Noun

corn m (plural cyrn)

1. horn
2. (obsolete) chimney

Derived terms

• rhewi'n gorn (“to freeze solid”)
• Siôn Corn (“Father Christmas, Santa Claus”)

Mutation

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “corn”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?plant(e)?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?plænt?n/, IPA^(key): /?plæn.te?n/

Etymology 1

From Middle English planteyne, planteyn, from Anglo-Norman plainteine et al., Old French plaintain, from Latin plant?ginem (“plantain”), accusative of plant?g?, from planta (“sole”), a nasalized form of Proto-Indo-European *pleth?- (“flat; to spread”), because of the broad, flat shape of the plantain leaves.

Noun

plantain (plural plantains)

1. A plant of the genus Plantago, with a rosette of sessile leaves about 10 cm long with a narrow part instead of a petiole, and with a spike inflorescence with the flower spacing varying widely among the species. See also psyllium.
   • 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society 2007, p. 225:

     The roots of Plantain and Pellitory of Spain beaten to powder and put into hollow teeth, takes away the pains of them.

   • 2003, Michael Hofmann, translating Ernst Jünger, Storm of Steel, Penguin 2004, p. 41:

     The paths too are overgrown, but easily identified by the presence on them of round-leaved plantains.

Synonyms

• waybread
• fleawort

Derived terms

• common plantain
• greater plantain
• mud plantain
• ribwort plantain
• robin's plantain
• water plantain

Translations

References

• Plantago on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Plantago on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Plantago on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Etymology 2

From Spanish plantano, obsolete variant of plátano, from Galibi Carib platana (“banana”).

Noun

plantain (plural plantains)

1. A plant in the genus Musa, the genus that includes banana, but with lower sugar content than banana.
2. The fruit of the plant, usually cooked before eating and used like potatoes.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:plantain.

Related terms

• banana plantain
• bocadillo plantain
• cooking plantain
• plantain cutter
• plantain eater (Musophagidae)
• plantain squirrel (Callosciurus notatus)
• plantain tree

Translations

References

• plantain on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Musa on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Musa on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• banana

Anagrams

• plainant

Basque

Etymology

Eventually from Latin plantaginem, accusative of plantago.

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /plan.ta?/

Noun

plantain inan

1. plantain

   Synonym: zainbelar

Declension

Further reading

• “plantain” in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia, euskaltzaindia.eus
• “plantain” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia, euskaltzaindia.eus

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pl??.t??/

Etymology 1

From Old French plantain, from Latin plant?g?, plant?ginem.

Noun

plantain m (plural plantains)

1. plantain, any plant of genus Plantago

Etymology 2

From banane plantain

Noun

plantain m (plural plantains)

1. plantain (fruit of the genus Musa)

Further reading

• “plantain” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Etymology

From Latin plant?g?, plant?ginem.

Noun

plantain m (oblique plural plantainz, nominative singular plantainz, nominative plural plantain)

1. plantain, any plant of genus Plantago

Descendants

• English: plantain
• French: plantain