different between ovule vs millet

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French ovule (“ovum”), from Latin ?vum (“egg”). Doublet of ovolo.

Noun

ovule (plural ovules)

1. (botany) The structure in a plant that develops into a seed after fertilization; the megasporangium of a seed plant with its enclosing integuments.
2. (zoology) An immature ovum in mammals.

Translations

Anagrams

• Louve

French

Etymology

Latin ?vum (“egg”) +? -ule (diminutive suffix)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?.vyl/
• Homophones: ovulent, ovules

Noun

ovule m (plural ovules)

1. (biology) ovum
2. (pharmacology) ovule (dosage form)

Verb

ovule

1. first-person singular present indicative of ovuler
2. third-person singular present indicative of ovuler
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of ovuler
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of ovuler
5. second-person singular imperative of ovuler

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Verb

ovule

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of ovular
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of ovular
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of ovular
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of ovular

Spanish

Verb

ovule

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of ovular.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of ovular.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of ovular.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of ovular.

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)

1. 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)

1. (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.

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)

1. 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)

1. nation

   Synonym: ulus