different between semolina vs groat

English

Alternative forms

• semolino (archaic)

Etymology

From earlier semolino, borrowed from Italian semolino, diminutive of semola, from Latin simila (“finest wheat flour”). Compare regional German Semmel (“bread roll”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?m??li?n?/
• Rhymes: -i?n?

Noun

semolina (usually uncountable, plural semolinas)

1. Coarse grains produced at an intermediate stage of wheat flour milling.
2. Such grains, usually from durum wheat, used in the preparation of pasta, couscous and various sweet dishes.
3. (cooking) Ellipsis of semolina pudding

Derived terms

• semolina pudding

Translations

See also

• grout
• grits
• meal

Further reading

• semolina on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• mineolas, simolean, somaline

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??o?t/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /????t/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /????t/
• Rhymes: -??t

Etymology 1

From Middle English grot, from Old English grot, from Proto-Germanic *grut?. More at grit, grout.

Noun

groat (countable and uncountable, plural groats)

1. (chiefly in the plural) Hulled grain.

Derived terms

• Embden groats

Related terms

• grit, grits
• grout, grouts
• gruel
• meal
• semolina

Translations

Etymology 2

Possibly from Middle Dutch groot, the Old French gros Tournois (“a coin of Tours”), from Medieval Latin denarius (“coin”) grossus (“large”). Related to German Groschen

Noun

groat (plural groats)

1. (archaic or historical) Any of various old coins of England and Scotland.
2. A historical English silver coin worth four English pennies, still minted as one of the set of Maundy coins.
3. A proverbial small sum; a whit or jot.

Translations

See also

• Groat (coin) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Argot, argot, gator, gotra