granoturco

Italian

Alternative forms

Etymology

'Foreign grain', because originating from Latin America; another hypothesis is that the word turco (literally 'Turkish') identified the commercial origin of maize, or that it arrived in Italy by passing through Ottoman Greece and Asia.

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /ɡranoˈturko/

Noun

granoturco m (plural granoturchi)

  1. maize

Synonyms

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