核心畫面

One way to hold it: a handful of hard little seeds from a food plant — wheat, , . That is the older, wider picture. American English narrowed it to one plant, , so today "corn" means 玉米 to most people. The foot sense is not part of this picture at all; it is a different word that ended up spelled the same.

可以想成一把硬硬的小種子,從糧食作物上收下來的——小麥、大麥、燕麥都算。這是比較老、比較寬的畫面;美式英語把它收窄到更多收起可以想成一把硬硬的小種子,從糧食作物上收下來的——小麥、大麥、燕麥都算。這是比較老、比較寬的畫面;美式英語把它收窄到其中一種作物 maize,所以今天大部分人講 corn 就是玉米。腳上的「雞眼」不屬於這張圖,它是另一個來源不同、只是拼法撞在一起的字。

From the word’s history

Corn (grain) is from Old English corn, from Proto-Germanic *kurnam "small seed" (PIE *gre-no- "grain"). Corn (on the foot) is a separate word, from Old French corne "horn of an animal", from Latin cornu "horn" — Latin cornu was applied to things horn-like in substance, including a hard growth on the foot.

「穀粒」的 corn 來自古英語 corn,源自原始日耳曼語 *kurnam「小種子」;腳上的「雞眼」則是另一個字,來自古法語 corne「動物的角」、拉丁語 cornu「角」——拉丁文用 cornu 稱呼各種像角一樣硬的東西,包括腳上長出來的硬塊。兩個 corn 在英語裡剛好長成同一個樣子,但從來不是同一個字。

Etymonline (etymonline.com/word/corn) — corn (n.1) vs corn (n.2)

From the picture

腳上的硬繭(不同來源的字)

這一支跟穀物沒有關係,不要硬找比喻連回去;它拼法相同純粹是巧合。

corn (on foot) · noun · B1

A small, painful area of thick, hard skin on your foot, often caused by tight shoes.

雞眼

Also in this word

grain (British) · noun · B1

In British English, plants such as wheat, barley, and oats, or the seeds from them; grain in general.

穀物;穀類

maize plant (American) · noun · B1

In American English, a tall plant with large yellow seeds that grow together on a cob, eaten as a vegetable or fed to animals.

玉米

corn kernels · noun · B1

The seeds of the corn (maize) plant — the yellow kernels that people eat.

玉米粒

原始詞典資料19 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Cornname

  • 1

    A surname.

  • 2

    A town in Oklahoma.

cornnoun詞源 1/ˈkɔːn/

  • 1

    Any cereal plant (or its grain) that is the main crop or staple of a country or region.

    • And hee ſaid, Beholde, I haue heard that there is corne in Egypt: get you downe thither and buy for vs from thence, that we may liue, and not die.
    • Among the divinities that dwelt on Mount Olympus, none was more friendly to the husbandman than Demeter, goddess of corn.
  • 2

    Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays.

    • The planting or sowing of maize, exclusively called corn, was just accomplished on the Town Hill, when I reached it.
    • Corn was the staff of life for many Indian people before contact, and it became the staff of life for many European colonists. Corn was higher in nutrition than most other grain crops. John Lawson, who travelled in South Carolina and into the interior Indian country in 1701, was one of the many colonists who sang the praises of corn.
  • 3

    A single seed of a food crop, especially a cereal grass crop.

    • He paid her the nominal fee of two corns of barley.
    • Verely, verely, I ſay vnto you, Except a corne of wheat fall into the ground, and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
  • 4

    A small, hard particle.

    • The least corn of sand is not so small to the whole earth, as man is to the heaven:[…]
    • corns of powder
  • 5

    A type of granular snow formed by repeated melting and refreezing, often in mountain spring conditions.

  • 6

    slangengineeringfirearmsgovernmentBullets, ammunition, and charge and discharge of firearms.

    • R.I.P Scumpy ah you did say Popcaan And if a boy diss we clap corn.
    • We got spinners and dotties We got .40s and MACs We got nuff live corn […] See the four-door pausing Skengs out, everyone runnin But the corn just slapped and floored em 50 shots in that mop
  • 7

    slangMoney.

    • You know dem have wedge while we have corn. Say Cockney say be first, my son! We just say Gwan!

cornverb詞源 1/ˈkɔːn/

  • 1

    To granulate; to form (a substance) into grains.

    • to corn gunpowder
  • 2

    To preserve using coarse salt, e.g. corned beef.

  • 3

    To provide (an animal) with corn (typically maize; or, in Scotland, oats) for feed.

    • Corn the horses.
  • 4

    obsoleteTo render intoxicated.

    • ale strong enough to corn one
  • 5

    slangTo shoot up with bullets as by a shotgun (corn).

    • Anywhere, anytime, I'll get him, if he's in love; I'll corn his wedding He backed his wetter, I backed my wetter but who really held that wetting?

cornnoun詞源 2/ˈkɔːn/

  • 1

    A type of callus, usually on the feet or hands.

    • Welcome Gentlemen, / Ladies that haue their toes / Vnplagu’d with Cornes, will walke about with you:[…]
  • 2

    biologymedicinenatural-sciencesAn inflammatory disease of a horse's hoof, at the caudal part of the sole.

  • 3

    biologymedicinenatural-sciencesSkin hyperplasia with underlying fibroma between both digits of cattle.

cornnoun詞源 3/ˈkɔːn/

  • 1

    Something (e.g., acting, humour, music, or writing) which is deemed old-fashioned or intended to induce emotion.

    • He had a sharp wit, true enough, but also a good, healthy mountaineer's love of pure corn, the slapstick stuff, the in-jokes that get funnier with every repetition and never amuse anybody who wasn't there.
    • There were lots of jokes on the show and they were pure corn, but the audience didn't mind.

cornnoun詞源 4/ˈkɔːn/

  • 1

    pornography; porn

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。