Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗verb
To feed grain to. · To make granular; to form into grains. · To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate. · To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryThe harvested seeds of various grass food crops, especially wheat, maize, rye, barley, and rice. · Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa. · A single seed of a food crop, especially a cereal grass crop. · The crops from which grain is harvested.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵerh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-nóm Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂-nós Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm Proto-Italic *grānom Latin grānum Old French grainbor. Middle English greyn English grain From Middle English greyn, grayn, grein, from Old French grain, grein, from Latin grānum (“seed”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm (“grain”). Doublet of corn, gram, granum, and grao.
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