corn

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kɔːn/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /kɔɹn/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n

From Middle English corn, from Old English corn, from Proto-Germanic *kurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm (“grain; worn-down”), from *ǵerh₂- (“grow old, mature”). Cognate with Dutch koren, Low German Koorn, German Korn, Norwegian and Swedish korn; see also Russian зерно́ (zernó), Czech zrno, Latin grānum, Lithuanian žirnis and English grain.

corn (usually uncountable, plural corns)

1. (Britain, uncountable) The main cereal plant grown for its grain in a given region, such as oats in parts of Scotland and Ireland, and wheat or barley in England and Wales.
   • 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:

     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.

   • 1887, James Death, Stories from heathen mythology and Greek history, page 12:

     [T]here exists arguments in favour of regarding one of the eatable varieties of "leaven," Machmetzeth, as the beer of the Hebrews. The mention of beer by the Egyptians is frequent; under the name of Hek, two intoxicating beverages are included. The components of these beers, individually, are not known: one was made from corn, the other was a medicated or sweetened beer, due to the addition of honey, or system of brewing.

   • 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) Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays.
   • 1809, Edward Augustus Kendall, Travels Through the Northern Parts of the United States‎:

     The planting or sowing of maize, exclusively called corn, was just accomplished on the Town Hill, when I reached it.

3. A grain or seed, especially of a cereal crop.

   He paid her the nominal fee of two corns of barley.

4. A small, hard particle.
   • Bishop Hall:

     corn of sand

   • Beaumont and Fletcher:

     a corn of powder

corn (Zea mays)

• Tok Pisin: kon
• → Maori: kānga

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

From Middle English corne, from Old French corn (modern French cor), from Latin cornu.

Feet with corns

corn (plural corns)

1. A type of callus, usually on the feet or hands.
   • Shakespeare

     Welcome, gentlemen! Ladies that have their toes / Unplagued with corns, will have a bout with you.

   Synonym: clavus

• callus

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

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.

From the resemblance to white corn kernels.

corn (uncountable)

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

   Synonym: corn snow

• Cron

From Latin cornū, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“horn”).

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɾn/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔrn/

corn m (plural corns)

1. horn (of animal)

   Synonym: banya

2. (music) horn

• corn anglès
• cornar

From Old Irish corn (“drinking horn, goblet; trumpet, horn; curl”), from Latin cornū.

• IPA^(key): /koːɾˠn̪ˠ/

corn m (genitive singular coirn, nominative plural coirn)

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

   Synonyms: corn óil, buabhall

3. (sports) cup
4. (racing) plate

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

1. (transitive) roll, coil

• cornaigh, cornáil

• "corn" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “corn” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “corn” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

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

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

• IPA^(key): /kɔrn/, /kɔːrn/

corn (plural corn or cornes)

1. Any plant that bears grain, especially wheat; a field planted with such plants.
2. Any kind or sort of grain, especially used as food.

   • a. 1382, John Wycliffe, “Matheu 3:12”, in Wycliffe's Bible:

     Whos wynewing cloth is in his hoond, and he ſhal fulli clenſe his corn flore, and ſhal gadere his whete in to his berne; but the chaffe he ſhal brenne with fier that mai not be quenchid.

     His winnowing fan is in his hand, and he'll completely clean his threshing-floor and gather up his wheat into his barn, but the chaff he'll burn with unquenchable fire.

3. A seed or germ of a plant that is not a grain.

   • a. 1382, John Wycliffe, “Matheu 13:31-32”, in Wycliffe's Bible:

     Another parable Jheſus puttide forth to hem, and ſeide, The kyngdom of heuenes is lijk to a corn of ſeneuey, which a man took, and ſewe in his feeld. / Which is the leeste of alle ſeedis, but whanne it hath woxen, it is the moste of alle wortis, and is maad a tre; ſo that briddis of the eir comen, and dwellen in the bowis therof.

     Jesus put another parable in front of them; he said: "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a mustard seed that a person took and sowed in their field. / It is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it grows, it is the largest of all the plants; it becomes a tree, so the birds of the air come and nest in its branches."

4. A grain or seed used as a unit of weight.
5. The optimum result or product; the superior section or bit.
6. The deserving; those who are morally right.
7. A swelling or bole; an external tumourous growth.

• corny
• kernel
• peper corn

• Scots: corn, curn
• English: corn
  • Tok Pisin: kon
  • → Maori: kānga
• Yola: coorn

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

Borrowed from Old French corne.

corn

1. Alternative form of corne (“callus”)

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).

• IPA^(key): /korn/

corn n

1. corn, a grain or seed
   • Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

     Hīe wǣron benumene æġðer ġe ðæs ċēapes ġe ðæs cornes.

     They were deprived both of cattle and of corn.

2. a cornlike pimple, a corn on the foot

• Middle English: corn, corne, korn, coorn, curn, coren, koren
  • Scots: corn, curn
  • English: corn
    • Tok Pisin: kon
    • → Maori: kānga
  • Yola: coorn

• cor, corne

From Latin cornū.

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)

   Synonyms: olifan, graisle

• French: cor

• IPA^(key): [korn]

From Latin cornū, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“horn”).

corn n (plural coarne)

1. horn

• încorna
• cornos

• cornut

From Latin cornus.

Flowers of the European Cornel; Florile cornului

corn m (plural corni)

1. cornel, European cornel, Cornus mas
2. rafter (of a house)

• sânger

From Middle English corn, from Old English corn.

corn (plural corns)

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

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

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

Borrowed from Latin cornū.

• IPA^(key): /kɔrn/

corn m (plural cyrn)

1. horn