🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

trigo

Pronunciation / Transliteration: trigo

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Wheat/wiːt/
nounCEFR B1 (Intermediate)Top #800 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"O trigo é um dos cereais mais cultivados do mundo."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A widely cultivated cereal grass whose grain is ground to make flour for bread, pasta, pastry, etc.

    "The vast fields of golden wheat swayed gently in the summer breeze."
  2. 2

    The grain of this grass used as food.

    "Most commercial bread is primarily made from wheat flour."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The word 'wheat' originates from the Old English 'hwita', which is derived from the Proto-Germanic '*wīhaz'. Its meaning has evolved over centuries, primarily referring to the cereal grain that is a staple food source in many cultures.

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