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cereale

cereal

noun cheh-reh-AH-leh Rare

Origin: Latin Cerealis, from Ceres, goddess of grain

Also means

grain

Usage Note

Cereale (plural cereali) covers both grain crops (wheat, barley, oats) and breakfast cereals. In everyday supermarket Italian, i cereali on a box means breakfast cereal, while in an agricultural context the same word refers to cereal crops. Learners sometimes confuse it with cibo (food) in general — cereale is always specifically grain-based.

Examples

"La colazione include latte e cereali."

Natural Translation

Breakfast includes milk and cereal.

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