cereal

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).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪə.ɹɪ.əl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪɚ.i.əl/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): [ˈsiːɹiəl]

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Homophone: serial

cereal (countable and uncountable, plural cereals)

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

   Would you like some cereal?

   Which cereal would you like for breakfast?

   a bowl of cereal

• (edible grains): foodgrain

• (Cereals) cereal; barley, fonio, maize/corn, millet, oats, rice, rye, sorghum, teff, triticale, wheat

• crescent
• sincere

• Lists of cereals at Wikipedia

• Carlee, alerce, claree, cleare, relace

Borrowed from Latin Cereālis (“relating to Ceres”), from Cerēs (“goddess of agriculture”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [sə.ɾeˈal]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [se.ɾeˈal]

cereal m (plural cereals)

1. cereal (type of grass cultivated for edible grains)
   • 2008, Miquel Pujol i Palol, Les plantes cultivades. 1. Cereals, →ISBN, page 24:

     Tant a Catalunya com a Espanya la importància del cultiu dels cereals ha anat augmentant en els darrers 40 anys.

     In Catalonia as well as in Spain, the importance of cereal crops has been increasing in the past 40 years.

2. (uncountable) cereal (the grains of such plants)
3. (in the plural) breakfast cereal (food processed from grains and eaten with milk)

• “cereal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cereal”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “cereal” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “cereal” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key): /θeɾeˈal/

cereal m (plural cereais)

1. cereal

• “cereal”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

Borrowed from Latin Cereālis (“relating to Ceres”), from Cerēs (“goddess of agriculture”).

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌsɛ.ɾɛ.ˈaw/, /ˌsɛ.ˈɾjaw/
• Homophone: serial
• Rhymes: -al, -aw

cereal m (plural cereais)

1. cereal (type of grass cultivated for edible grains)
2. (uncountable) cereal (the grains of such plants)
3. breakfast cereal (food processed from grains and eaten with milk)

• (type of grass): gramínea

• (Cereals) cereal; arroz, aveia, centeio, cevada, fonio, milhete/milheto, milho, sorgo, trigo, triticale

• “cereal”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Borrowed from Latin Cereālis (“relating to Ceres”), from Cerēs (“goddess of agriculture”).

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /θeɾeˈal/ [θe.ɾeˈal]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /seɾeˈal/ [se.ɾeˈal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: ce‧re‧al

cereal m (plural cereales)

1. cereal (type of grass cultivated for edible grains)
2. (uncountable) cereal (the grains of such plants)
3. (in the plural) breakfast cereal (food processed from grains and eaten with milk)

• “cereal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16