corn

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See also: -corn, còrn, and Còrn

English

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English (deprecated template usage) corn, from Template:proto, from Template:proto, neuter participle of Template:proto. Cognate with Dutch (deprecated template usage) koren, German (deprecated template usage) Korn, Danish/Norwegian/Swedish (deprecated template usage) korn; see also Russian (deprecated template usage) зерно (zerno), Czech (deprecated template usage) zrno, Latin (deprecated template usage) grānum, Lithuanian (deprecated template usage) žirnis and English (deprecated template usage) grain.

Noun

corn (plural corns)

  1. Template: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.
  2. Template:US A type of grain of the species Zea mays, maize
  3. Template:British A grain or seed, especially of cereal crops.
Derived terms
terms derived from corn (noun)

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Translations
See also
other words for grain

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Verb

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

  1. Template:US To granulate; to form a substance into grains.
  2. Template:US To preserve using coarse salt, e.g. corned beef
  3. Template:US To provide with corn (typically maize) for feed.
    Corn the horses.

Etymology 2

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French (deprecated template usage) corn (modern French (deprecated template usage) cor).

Noun

corn (plural corns)

  1. A callus on the foot.
Translations

Etymology 3

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

Noun

corn (uncountable)

  1. Template:US 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.
Derived terms

References

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Anglo-Norman

Alternative forms

Noun

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  1. horn (instrument used to create sound)

Synonyms

Catalan

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin (deprecated template usage) cornū.

Noun

corn m (plural corns)

  1. horn (of animal)
  2. Template:musici horn

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Derived terms

Irish

Pronunciation

Noun

corn m

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

Declension

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Mutation

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Synonyms

Old English

Etymology

Template:proto, from Template:proto.

Pronunciation

Noun

corn ?

  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

Romanian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin (deprecated template usage) cornus.

Noun

Flowers of the European Cornel; Florile cornului

corn n (plural corni)

  1. European Cornel, scientific name Cornus mas
  2. rafter Template:italbrac
Declension
Declension of corn
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) corn cornul (niște) corni cornii
genitive/dative (unui) corn cornului (unor) corni cornilor
vocative cornule cornilor

Etymology 2

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin (deprecated template usage) cornū.

Noun

corn n (plural coarne)

  1. horn
Declension
Declension of corn
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) corn cornul (niște) coarne coarnele
genitive/dative (unui) corn cornului (unor) coarne coarnelor
vocative cornule coarnelor
Derived terms

Scots

Noun

corn (plural corns)

  1. corn
  2. oats
  3. (in 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

Noun

corn m (plural cyrn)

  1. horn
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