different between rust vs cinnamon

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?st, IPA^(key): /??st/
• Rhymes: -?st

Etymology 1

From Middle English rust, rost, roust, from Old English rust, r?st (“rust”), from Proto-West Germanic *rust, from Proto-Germanic *rustaz (“rust”), from Proto-Indo-European *rud?so- (“red”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?rewd?- (“red”).

Cognate with Scots roust (“rust”), Saterland Frisian rust (“rust”), West Frisian roast (“rust”), Dutch roest (“rust”), German Rost (“rust”), Danish rust (“rust”), Swedish rost (“rust”), Norwegian rust, ryst (“rust”). Related to red.

Noun

rust (countable and uncountable, plural rusts)

1. The deteriorated state of iron or steel as a result of moisture and oxidation.

   The rust on my bicycle chain made cycling to work very dangerous.

2. A similar substance based on another metal (usually with qualification, such as "copper rust").

   aerugo. Green or blue-green copper rust; verdigris. (American Heritage Dictionary, 1973)

3. A reddish-brown color.

4. A disease of plants caused by a reddish-brown fungus.
5. (philately) Damage caused to stamps and album pages by a fungal infection.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English rusten, from the noun (see above).

Verb

rust (third-person singular simple present rusts, present participle rusting, simple past and past participle rusted)

1. (intransitive) To oxidize, especially of iron or steel.

   The patio furniture had rusted in the wind-driven spray.

2. (transitive) To cause to oxidize.

   The wind-driven spray had thoroughly rusted the patio furniture.

3. (intransitive) To be affected with the parasitic fungus called rust.
4. (transitive, intransitive, figuratively) To (cause to) degenerate in idleness; to make or become dull or impaired by inaction.
   • 1692, John Dryden, Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero, a Tragedy

     Must I rust in Egypt? never more / Appear in arms, and be the chief of Greece?

Synonyms

• oxidise / oxidize
• corrode

Translations

See also

Anagrams

• RTUs, UTRs, ruts, stur, turs

Danish

Etymology

From Old Swedish rost (“rust”), from Old Norse *rustr, possibly borrowed from Old Saxon rost, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *rustaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rost/, [??sd?]

Noun

rust c (singular definite rusten, not used in plural form)

1. rust
2. corrosion

Verb

rust

1. imperative of ruste

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?st/
• Hyphenation: rust
• Rhymes: -?st

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch ruste, from Old Dutch *rusta, from Proto-Germanic *rustij?. Cognate with German Low German Rüst (“rest”).

Noun

rust f (plural rusten)

1. rest, calm, peace

2. (sports) half-time

Derived terms

• rusteloos
• rustig

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

rust

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of rusten
2. imperative of rusten

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

rust m or f (definite singular rusta or rusten) (uncountable)

1. rust (oxidation of iron and steel)
2. rust (disease affecting plants)

Derived terms

• rustrød

Verb

rust

1. imperative of ruste

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *rustaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?st/

Noun

rust f (definite singular rusta) (uncountable)

1. rust (oxidation, as above)
2. rust (plant disease)

Verb

rust

1. imperative of rusta and ruste

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r??st/

Verb

rust

1. past participle of rusa

References

• “rust” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

English

Etymology

From Middle English synamome, from Old French cinnamone, from Latin cinnamon, cinnam?mum, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (kinnám?mon), later ???????? (kínnamon), probably to be explained as “Chinese amomum”, ?????? (ám?mon) being, only cognate to Classical Syriac ??????? (??m?m?) and Arabic ????????? (?am?m?), a phytonym of lost provenience for a varied genus Amomum of spice and drug plants; compare for this composition the Iranian designation ??????? (dâr?in, literally “Chinese tree”).

Pronunciation

• (Canada) IPA^(key): /?s?n.?.m?n/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s?n.?.m?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?s?n.?.m?n/, /?s?n.?.m?n/
  • (nonstandard) IPA^(key): /?s?.m?n/

Noun

cinnamon (countable and uncountable, plural cinnamons)

1. (countable) A small evergreen tree native to Sri Lanka and southern India, Cinnamomum verum or Cinnamomum zeylanicum, belonging to the family Lauraceae.
2. Several related trees, notably the Indonesian cinnamon (Cinnamomum burmanni) and Chinese cinnamon or cassia (Cinnamomum aromaticum or Cinnamomum cassia).
3. (chiefly uncountable) A spice from the dried aromatic bark of the cinnamon tree, either rolled into strips or ground into a powder. The word is commonly used as trade name for spices made of any of the species above.
   1. true cinnamon, the product made of Cinnamomum verum
4. (countable) A warm yellowish-brown color, the color of cinnamon.

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

cinnamon (not comparable)

1. Containing cinnamon, or having a cinnamon taste.
2. Of a yellowish-brown color.

Translations

See also

• canella
• cassia
• essonite, hessonite
• five-spice powder
• red-hot
• Appendix:Colors

Further reading

• cinnamon in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• cinnamon in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• cinnamon at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• nonmanic