Etymology

sorghum

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Today it means: A cereal, Sorghum genus and species, the grains of which are cultivated to make flour and feed cattle. Almost all cultivated ones as well as some wild ones belong to the species Sorghum bicolor (syn. Sorghum vulgare). Full definition →

Italian sorgo ← Vulgar Latin *syricum
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  1. Vulgar Latin · derived from*syricum“Syrian”
  2. Italian · derived fromsorgo
  3. English todaysorghum

From New Latin genus name Sorghum, from Italian sorgo, from Vulgar Latin *syricum (“Syrian”), from Sȳricus. Doublet of the synonyms sorgho (via French) and sorgo (via Italian).

Words from the same roots

Italiansorgo all →

sorgo

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