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English

Etymology

From Middle English starche (noun), from *starche, sterch (“stiff”, adj), an assibilated form of Middle English stark, sterk (“strong; stiff”), from Old English stearc (“stark; strong; rough”). Compare Middle High German sterke, German Stärke. More at stark.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /st??t?/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /st??t?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t?

Noun

starch (countable and uncountable, plural starches)

1. (uncountable) A widely diffused vegetable substance, found especially in seeds, bulbs and tubers, as extracted (e.g. from potatoes, corn, rice, etc.) in the form of a white, glistening, granular or powdery substance, without taste or smell, and giving a very peculiar creaking sound when rubbed between the fingers. It is used as a food, in the production of commercial grape sugar, for stiffening linen in laundries, in making paste, etc.
2. (nutrition, countable) Carbohydrates, as with grain and potato based foods.
3. (uncountable) A stiff, formal manner; formality.

   • this Professor is to give the society their stiffening, and infuse into their manners that beautiful political starch, which may qualify them for Levées, Conferences, Visits

4. (uncountable) Fortitude.
5. (countable) Any of various starch-like substances used as a laundry stiffener

Derived terms

• starchy
• cornstarch
• potato starch

Translations

Verb

starch (third-person singular simple present starches, present participle starching, simple past and past participle starched)

1. To apply or treat with laundry starch, to create a hard, smooth surface.

   She starched her blouses.

Translations

Adjective

starch (not comparable)

1. Stiff; precise; rigid.
   • 1713, John Killingbeck, Eighteen sermons on practical subjects

     misrepresenting Sobriety as a Starch and Formal, and Vertue as a Laborious and Slavish thing

Derived terms

• starchness

Translations

References

• starch in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• charts, crasht, trachs

Cimbrian

Adjective

starch

1. strong
2. loud

References

• Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French céréale (“having to do with cereal”), from Latin Cerealis (“of or relating to Ceres”), from Ceres (“Roman goddess of agriculture”), from Proto-Indo-European *?er- (“grow”), from which also Latin sincerus (English sincere) and Latin cr?sc? (“grow”) (English crescent).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?s???i???]
• Homophone: serial

Noun

cereal (countable and uncountable, plural cereals)

1. (countable) A type of grass (such as wheat, rice or oats) cultivated for its edible grains.
2. (uncountable) The grains of such a grass.
3. (uncountable) Breakfast cereal.

   Would you like some cereal?

   Which cereal would you like for breakfast?

Synonyms

• (edible grains): foodgrain

Hyponyms

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

Derived terms

Related terms

• crescent
• sincere

Translations

Further reading

• Lists of cereals at Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Carlee, alerce, claree, cleare, relace

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Cere?lis (“relating to Ceres”), from Cer?s (“goddess of agriculture”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /s?.?e?al/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /se.?e?al/

Noun

cereal m (plural cereals)

1. cereal (type of grass cultivated for edible grains)
2. (uncountable) cereal (the grains of such plants)
3. (in the plural) breakfast cereal (food processed from grains and eaten with milk)

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Cere?lis (“relating to Ceres”), from Cer?s (“goddess of agriculture”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /s?.??ja?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?se.?i.?aw/, /?se.?e.?aw/
• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /?s?.??.?aw/, /?s?.??jaw/
• Homophone: serial

Noun

cereal m (plural cereais)

1. cereal (type of grass cultivated for edible grains)
2. (uncountable) cereal (the grains of such plants)
3. breakfast cereal (food processed from grains and eaten with milk)

Hypernyms

• (type of grass): gramínea

Hyponyms

• (Cereals) cereal; arroz, aveia, centeio, cevada, fonio, milhete/milheto, milho, sorgo, trigo, triticale

Related terms

Further reading

• “cereal” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Cere?lis (“relating to Ceres”), from Cer?s (“goddess of agriculture”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /?e?e?al/, [?e.?e?al]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /se?e?al/, [se.?e?al]

Noun

cereal m (plural cereales)

1. cereal (type of grass cultivated for edible grains)
2. (uncountable) cereal (the grains of such plants)
3. (in the plural) breakfast cereal (food processed from grains and eaten with milk)

Further reading

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