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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