millet

Pronunciation: /ˈmɪlət/

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine
  2. noun French painter of rural scenes (1814-1875)
  3. noun small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica

Etymology

From late Middle English, borrowed from Middle French millet; from Latin milium, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to grind, crush”), see also Ancient Greek μελίνη (melínē, “millet”) and Lithuanian málnos (“millet”). Not related to مِلَّة (milla).

In classic literature

Semantic network

Broader (hypernyms)
cereal
Narrower (hyponyms)
barnyard grass, finger millet, yardgrass, japanese millet, sorghum, panic grass

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