cereal

English

Wikipedia

Wheat, a cereal (1).

Etymology

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 *ker- (“grow”), from which also Latin sincerus (English sincere) and Latin crēscō (“grow”) (English crescent).

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ˈsɪəɹiːəɫ]

• Audio (US)

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• Homophone: serial

Noun

cereal (usually 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?

4. (countable) A particular type of breakfast cereal.

   Which cereal would you like for breakfast?

Hyponyms

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

Derived terms

• cereal bar
• cereal dust
• cereal killer
• pseudocereal

Related terms

• crescent
• sincere

Translations

type of grass

• Albanian: drithi (sq) m
• Armenian: հացաբույս (hy) (hac’abuys) , հացահատիկային կուլտուրա (hy) (hac’ahatikayin kultura) 
• Basque: zereal (eu)
• Bulgarian: житна култура (bg) f (žitna kultura)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 穀物 (cmn), 谷物 (cmn) (gǔwù)

• Czech: obilnina (cs) f
• Danish: korn (da), kornsort (da)
• Finnish: vilja (fi)
• French: céréale f
• Georgian: ხორბლის (ka) (khorblis) 
• German: Getreide n
• Greek: δημητριακό (el) (dimitriakó) n 
• Haitian Creole: sereyal
• Indonesian: sereal (id)
• Japanese: 穀物 (ja) (kokumotsu)
• Korean: 시리얼 (ko) (silieol)

• Latin: sacrificium (la) n
• Latvian: labība (lv) f
• Macedonian: житарка (mk) (žítarka) f, жито (mk) (žíto) n
• Malay: bijian (ms)
• Polish: zboże (pl) f
• Portuguese: cereal
• Quechua: riwi (qu)
• Romanian: cereală (ro) f
• Russian: злак (ru) (zlak) m , зерновая культура (ru) (z'ernovája kultúra) f 
• Serbo-Croatian: žitarica (sh) f
• Slovene: žito
• Spanish: cereal (es) m
• Swahili: nafaka (sw)
• Swedish: sädesslag (sv) n
• Tagalog: siryal (tl), sereal (tl)
• Turkish: tahıl (tr)
• Vietnamese: ngũ cốc (vi)
• Zulu: okusanhlamvu (zu)

grains of such a grass

• Armenian: հացահատիկ (hy) (hac’ahatik) 
• Bulgarian: зърнени храни (bg) pl (zǎrneni hrani)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 穀物 (cmn), 谷物 (cmn) (gǔwù)

• Czech: obilí (cs) n
• Danish: korn (da)
• Finnish: vilja, viljanjyvä
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Getreide n
• Greek: δημητριακό (el) (dimitriakó) n 
• Korean: 곡물 (ko) (gongmul)
• Latvian: labība (lv) f

• Macedonian: зрна (mk) (z'rna) n, жито (mk) (žíto) n
• Malay: bijirin (ms)
• Polish: zboże (pl) n
• Portuguese: cereais
• Romanian: cereală (ro) f
• Russian: крупа (ru) (krupá) f 
• Serbo-Croatian: zrno (sh) n
• Slovene: zrno
• Spanish: cereal (es) m
• Swedish: korn (sv) n
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Volapük: grenaflogs (vo)

breakfast cereal — see breakfast cereal

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Translations to be checked

• Georgian: ხორბლეული (ka) (xorbleuli) 

External links

• Lists of cereals at Wikipedia

Anagrams

• claree
• cleare
• relace

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin Cereālis (“relating to Ceres”), from Cerēs (“goddess of agriculture”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA: /ˌse.ɾi.ˈaw/, /ˌse.ɾe.ˈaw/
• 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

cerealicultor cerealicultura cerealífero

cerealina cerealista Ceres

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Spanish

Noun

cereal m (plural cereales)

1. cereal