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4-letter words (2 found)

CORN,CRON,

3-letter words (5 found)

CON,COR,NOR,ORC,ROC,

2-letter words (3 found)

NO,ON,OR,

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Definitions and meaning of corn

corn

English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kɔːn/
  • (US, Canada) IPA(key): /kɔɹn/
  • Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle English corn, from Old English corn, from Proto-West Germanic *korn, from Proto-Germanic *kurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm (“grain; worn-down”), from *ǵerh₂- (“grow old, mature”). Cognate with Dutch koren, German Low German Koorn, German Korn, Danish korn, Norwegian Bokmål korn, Norwegian Nynorsk korn and Swedish korn; see also Albanian grurë, Russian зерно́ (zernó), Czech zrno, Latin grānum and Lithuanian žirnis. Doublet of grain, gram, granum, and grao.

The sense maize (Zea mays) is an ellipsis of Indian corn that developped in 18th century North America.

Noun

corn (usually uncountable, plural corns)

  1. (Commonwealth English, but not Australia or New Zealand, uncountable) Any cereal plant (or its grain) that is the main crop or staple of a country or region.
  3. (US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, uncountable) Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays.
    Synonym: (obsolete) Indian corn
  4. A grain or seed, especially of a cereal crop.
  5. A small, hard particle.
  6. (uncountable) A type of granular snow formed by repeated melting and refreezing, often in mountain spring conditions.
    Synonym: corn snow
  8. (Jamaica, MLE, slang, firearms, uncountable) Bullets, ammunition, charge and discharge of firearms.
  9. (Jamaica, slang, uncountable) Money.
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Kashubian: kòrné (Canada)
  • Tok Pisin: kon
  • → Maori: kānga
Translations
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Verb

corn (third-person singular simple present corns, present participle corning, simple past and past participle corned) (transitive)

  1. (US, Canada) To granulate; to form (a substance) into grains.
  2. (US, Canada) To preserve using coarse salt, e.g. corned beef.
  3. (US, Canada) To provide (an animal) with corn (typically maize; or, in Scotland, oats) for feed.
  4. (transitive, obsolete) To render intoxicated.
  5. (Jamaica, MLE, slang) To shoot up with bullets as by a shotgun (corn).
Translations

Etymology 2

Inherited from Middle English corne, from Old French corn (modern French cor), from Latin cornū. Doublet of corno, cornu, and horn.

Noun

corn (plural corns)

  1. A type of callus, usually on the feet or hands.
    Synonym: clavus
  2. (veterinary medicine) An inflammatory disease of a horse's hoof, at the caudal part of the sole.
  3. (veterinary medicine) Skin hyperplasia with underlying fibroma between both digits of cattle.
Hyponyms
  • callus
Translations

Etymology 3

From corny.

Noun

corn (uncountable)

  1. (US, Canada) Something (e.g., acting, humour, music, or writing) which is deemed old-fashioned or intended to induce emotion.
Derived terms

Etymology 4

Rhyming euphemism for porn, and with influence from the emoji substitute 🌽.

Noun

corn (uncountable)

  2. (Internet, euphemistic) pornography; porn
Derived terms
  • Cornhub
  • cornography

References

Anagrams

  • Cron

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin cornū

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈkɔrn]
  • IPA(key): (Valencia) [ˈkɔɾn]

Noun

corn m (plural corns)

  1. horn (of an animal)
    Synonym: banya
  2. (music) horn
  3. sea snail

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

  • “corn”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish corn (“drinking horn”), from Latin cornū.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /koːɾˠn̪ˠ/

Noun

corn m (genitive singular coirn, nominative plural coirn)

  1. horn (a musical instrument)
  2. drinking-horn
    Synonyms: corn óil, buabhall
  3. (sports) cup
  4. (motor racing) plate

Declension

Derived terms

Verb

corn (present analytic cornann, future analytic cornfaidh, verbal noun cornadh, past participle corntha)

  1. (transitive) roll, coil

Conjugation

Alternative forms

  • cornaigh, cornáil

Mutation

Further reading

  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “corn”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 248; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “corn”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  • de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “corn”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
  • “corn”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

Middle English

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English corn, from Proto-West Germanic *korn, from Proto-Germanic *kurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm. Doublet of greyn.

Alternative forms

  • coorn, coren, corne, curn, koren, korn

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɔrn/, /koːrn/, /kurn/

Noun

corn (plural corn or cornes)

  1. Any plant that bears grain, especially wheat.
  2. A field planted with such plants.
  3. Any kind of grain (especially as food)
  4. A seed of a non-grain plant.
  5. A grain or seed used as a unit of weight.
  6. The optimum product; the superior portion.
  7. The deserving; those who are morally right.
  8. A bole (external tumourous growth).
Related terms
Descendants
  • English: corn (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: corn, curn
  • Yola: coorn, koorn

References

  • “cō̆rn, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-08.

Etymology 2

Noun

corn

  1. alternative form of corne (“callus”)

Old English

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *korn, from Proto-Germanic *kurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm (“grain”).

Cognate with Old Frisian korn, Old Saxon korn (Low German Koorn), Dutch koren, Old High German korn, Old Norse korn, Gothic 𐌺𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽 (kaurn).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /korn/, [korˠn]

Noun

corn n

  1. corn, a grain or seed
    • 880-1150, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
  2. a cornlike pimple, a corn on the foot

Declension

Strong a-stem:

Descendants

  • Middle English: corn, coorn, coren, corne, curn, koren, korn
    • English: corn (see there for further descendants)
    • Scots: corn, curn
    • Yola: coorn, koorn

Old French

Alternative forms

  • cor, coir, cuir
  • corne f

Etymology

Inherited from Latin cornū.

Noun

corn oblique singular, m (oblique plural corns, nominative singular corns, nominative plural corn)

  1. horn (a bony projection on the head of some animals)
  2. corner, angle, secluded place
  3. (figurative) strength, power
  4. horn (an instrument used to create sound)
    Synonyms: olifan, graisle

Descendants

  • French: cor

References

  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (corn)

Old Irish

Etymology

From Latin cornū.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [kor͈n͈]

Noun

corn m (genitive cuirn, nominative plural cuirn)

  1. drinking-horn, goblet

Declension

Descendants

  • Irish: corn
  • Manx: cayrn
  • Scottish Gaelic: còrn

Mutation

Further reading

  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “corn”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [korn]

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin cornū.

Noun

corn n (plural coarne)

  1. horn
Declension
Derived terms
Related terms
  • cornut

Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin cornus.

Noun

corn m (plural corni)

  1. cornel, European cornel, Cornus mas
  2. rafter (of a house)
Declension
Related terms
  • coarnă

See also

  • sânger

Scots

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English corn, from Old English corn.

Noun

corn (plural corns)

  1. corn
  2. oats
  3. (in the plural) crops (of grain)

Verb

corn (third-person singular simple present corns, present participle cornin, simple past cornt, past participle cornt)

  1. to feed (a horse) with oats or grain

Welsh

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Welsh corn, from Proto-Brythonic *korn, from Latin cornū.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɔrn/
  • Rhymes: -ɔrn

Noun

corn m (plural cyrn)

  1. horn
  2. antler
    Synonyms: rhaidd, osgl
  3. chimney
    Synonym: simnai
  4. corn, callus
    Synonym: caleden

Derived terms

Mutation

Further reading

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “corn”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Source: wiktionary.org