different between sorghum vs sorgo

English

Alternative forms

• sourgum, sorgum, sorgho

Etymology

From New Latin genus name Sorghum, from Italian sorgo, from Vulgar Latin *syricum (“Syrian”), from S?ricus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?(?).??m/

Noun

sorghum (countable and uncountable, plural sorghums)

1. A cereal, Sorghum bicolor (syn. Sorghum vulgare) the grains of which are used to make flour and as cattle feed.
   • 1936, Harry Nelson Vinall, Joseph Charlworth Stephens, John Holmes Martin, Identification, History, and Distribution of Common Sorghum Varieties, US Department of Agriculture, Technical Bulletin No. 506, page 2,

     The sorghum crop has four uses — forage, grain, sirup, and industrial (such as the manufacture of brooms, wallboard, etc.).

   • 1978, US Department of Agriculture, Watch out for witchweed, a serious pest of corn, sorghum, and other crops, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Program Number 1212, unnumbered page,

     Witchweed (Striga spp.) is a parasitic plant that attacks corn, sorghum, sugarcane, rice, and more than 60 different species of the grass family.

   • 2008, Lamissa Diakité, Amadou Sidibé, Melinda Smale, Mikkel Grum, Seed Value Chains for Sorghum and Millet in Mali: A State-based System in Transition, International Food Policy Research Institute, Discussion Paper 00749, page 2,

     Archaeological evidence suggests that economies based on cattle, goats, sorghum, and pearl millet were established in this region between 5,000 and 3,000 years ago (Smith 1998).

2. (Southern US) Sorghum syrup.

Synonyms

• (cereal): guinea corn (West Africa); Kafir corn (South Africa); mtama (East Africa); durra (Sudan); juar, jowar, cholam (India); kaoliang (China); milo (United States)

Coordinate terms

• (Cereals) cereal; barley, fonio, maize/corn, millet, oats, rice, rye, sorghum, teff, triticale, wheat

Derived terms

• sorghum midge (Stenodiplosis sorghicola)
• sorghum syrup, sorghum molasses

Related terms

• sorgolactone

Translations

Further reading

• sorghum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

Compare Italian sorgo.

Noun

sorgo (uncountable)

1. (dated) sorghum
   • 1964, Otto H. Coleman, I. E. Stokes, Storage studies of sorgo

     Juice extraction remained constant for sorgo stalks kept wet, but it decreased gradually for dry stalks during 2 weeks storage.

Catalan

Noun

sorgo m (plural sorgos)

1. sorghum

   Synonym: melca

Further reading

• “sorgo” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “sorgo” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “sorgo” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “sorgo” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

sorgo ? (plural [please provide], diminutive [please provide])

1. sorghum

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sor?o/
• Hyphenation: sor?go
• Rhymes: -or?o

Noun

sorgo (accusative singular sorgon, plural sorgoj, accusative plural sorgojn)

1. sorghum

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??.?o/

Noun

sorgo m (plural sorgos)

1. Post-1990 spelling of sorgho.

Galician

Noun

sorgo m (plural sorgos)

1. sorghum (a cereal)

Further reading

• “sorgo” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Italian

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin syricum (“Syrian”).

Noun

sorgo m (plural sorghi)

1. sorghum

   Synonym: saggina

Descendants

• ? Russian: ?????? (sórgo)
  • ? Armenian: ????? (sorgo)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

sorgo

1. first-person singular present indicative of sorgere

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?r.??/

Noun

sorgo n

1. sorghum

Declension

Further reading

• sorgo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Noun

sorgo m (plural sorgos)

1. sorghum (a cereal)

Further reading

• “sorgo” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin Syricum, from Syria.

Noun

sorgo m (plural sorgos)

1. sorghum

   Synonym: zahína

Further reading

• “sorgo” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.