cereal

adj

Etymology: Borrowed 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 *ḱer- (“grow”), from which also Latin sincerus (English sincere) and Latin crēscō (“grow”) (English crescent). The adjective is equivalent to Cere(s) + -al.

1. Of or relating to cereal.

   “Wheat .. is, of all the cereal seeds, the best adapted to the making of bread.”

   “Millet, the smallest of all the cereal seeds cultivated for food, grows on arid soils, where rice and maize cannot be successfully cultivated, […]”

name

1. A village in Alberta, Canada.

noun

Etymology: Borrowed 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 *ḱer- (“grow”), from which also Latin sincerus (English sincere) and Latin crēscō (“grow”) (English crescent). The adjective is equivalent to Cere(s) + -al.

1. A type of grass (such as wheat, rice or oats) cultivated for its edible grains.
2. The grains of such a grass.
3. Breakfast cereal.

   “Would you like some cereal?”

   “Which cereal would you like for breakfast?”