corn

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English [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

Etymology 1 [edit]

Old English corn, from Proto-Germanic *kurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm (“grain; worn-down”), neuter participle of Proto-Indo-European *ǵer- (“to wear down”). Cognate with Dutch koren, German Korn, Danish/Norwegian/Swedish korn; see also Russian зерно (zerno), Czech zrno, Latin grānum, Lithuanian žirnis and English grain.

Noun [edit]

corn (usually uncountable; plural corns)

  1. (uncountable) A cereal plant grown for its grain, specifically the main such plant grown in a given region, such as oats in parts of Scotland and Ireland, wheat or barley in England and Wales, and maize or sweetcorn in the Americas.
    • 1847, John Mason Neale, Stories from heathen mythology and Greek history, page 115:
      Among the divinities that dwelt on Mount Olympus, none was more friendly to the husbandman than Demeter, goddess of corn.
    • 1867, Karl Marx (Samuel Moore & Edward Aveling, translators), Das Kapital[1]:
      However much the individual manufacturer might give the rein to his old lust for gain, the spokesmen and political leaders of the manufacturing class ordered a change of front and of speech towards the workpeople. They had entered upon the contest for the repeal of the Corn Laws, and needed the workers to help them to victory. They promised therefore, not only a double-sized loaf of bread, but the enactment of the Ten Hours' Bill in the Free-trade millennium.
    • 1909, Johann David Wyss (Susannah Mary Paull, translator), The Swiss Family Robinson, page 462:
      I found that we had nearly a hundred bushels of corn, including wheat, maize, and barley, to add to our store.
  2. (US, Canada, Australia, uncountable) A type of grain of the species Zea mays, maize
    • 1809, Edward Augustus Kendall, Travels Through the Northern Parts of the United States[2]:
      The planting or sowing of maize, exclusively called corn, was just accomplished on the Town Hill, when I reached it.
  3. (UK, uncountable) A grain or seed, especially of cereal crops.
corn (Zea mays)
Derived terms [edit]
terms derived from corn (noun)
Translations [edit]
maize — see maize
the fruits of a cereal crop
See also [edit]
other words for grain

Verb [edit]

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

  1. (US, Canada) To granulate; to form a substance into grains.
    to corn gunpowder
  2. (US, Canada) To preserve using coarse salt, e.g. corned beef
  3. (US, Canada) To provide with corn (typically maize; or, in Scotland, oats) for feed.
    Corn the horses.
  4. (transitive) To render intoxicated.
    ale strong enough to corn one
Translations [edit]
to preserve with salt

Etymology 2 [edit]

From Old French corn (modern French cor).

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Noun [edit]

corn (plural corns)

  1. A type of callus, usually on the feet or hands.
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Translations [edit]
type of callus

Etymology 3 [edit]

This use was first used in 1932, as corny, something appealing to country folk.

Noun [edit]

corn (uncountable)

  1. (US, Canada) Something (e.g. acting, humour, music, or writing) which is deemed old-fashioned or intended to induce emotion.[1]
    • 1975, Tschirlie, Backpacker magazine,
      He had a sharp wit, true enough, but also a good, healthy mountaineer's love of pure corn, the slapstick stuff, the in-jokes that get funnier with every repetition and never amuse anybody who wasn't there.
    • 1986, Linda Martin and Kerry Segrave, Women in Comedy‎,
      There were lots of jokes on the show and they were pure corn, but the audience didn't mind.
    • 2007, Bob L. Cox, Fiddlin' Charlie Bowman: an East Tennessee old-time music pioneer and his musical family,
      The bulk of this humor was pure corn, but as hillbilly material it was meant to be that way.
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Etymology 4 [edit]

Noun [edit]

corn (uncountable)

  1. (uncountable) short for corn snow.. A type of granular snow formed by repeated melting and re-freezing, often in mountain spring conditions.

References [edit]

  1. ^ "Corn (emotion)", Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Cambridge University Press.

Catalan [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Latin cornū.

Noun [edit]

corn m (plural corns)

  1. horn (of animal)
  2. (music) horn

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Irish [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

  • IPA: [koːɾˠn̪ˠ]

Noun [edit]

corn m (genitive coirn, nominative plural coirn)

  1. horn (musical instrument)
  2. drinking-horn

Declension [edit]

Declension of corn

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative corn coirn
Vocative a choirn a chorna
Genitive coirn corn
Dative corn coirn

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an corn na coirn
Genitive an choirn na gcorn
Dative leis an gcorn

don chorn

 leis na coirn

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Mutation [edit]

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
corn chorn gcorn
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Old English [edit]

Etymology [edit]

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

Pronunciation [edit]

Noun [edit]

corn n

  1. corn, a grain or seed
    • Hie wæron benumene ægðer ge ðæs ceapes ge ðæs cornes: they were deprived both of cattle and of corn. (Anglo-Saxon Chronicle)
  2. a cornlike pimple, a corn on the foot

Old French [edit]

Alternative forms [edit]

Noun [edit]

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

  1. horn (bony projection found on the head of some animals)
  2. horn (instrument used to create sound)

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Romanian [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

Etymology 1 [edit]

From Latin cornū.

Noun [edit]

corn n (plural coarne)

  1. horn
Declension [edit]
declension of corn
singular plural
gender n indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative un corn cornul niște coarne coarnele
genitive/dative unui corn cornului unor coarne coarnelor
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Etymology 2 [edit]

From Latin cornus.

Noun [edit]

Flowers of the European Cornel; Florile cornului

corn n (plural corni)

  1. European Cornel, scientific name Cornus mas
  2. rafter (of a house)
Declension [edit]
declension of corn
singular plural
gender m indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative un corn cornul niște corni cornii
genitive/dative unui corn cornului unor corni cornilor

Scots [edit]

Noun [edit]

corn (plural corns)

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

Verb [edit]

tae 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 [edit]

Noun [edit]

corn m (plural cyrn) 

  1. horn
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