granoturco
Italian
Alternative forms
- granturco
Etymology
'Foreign grain', because originating from Latin America; another hypothesis is that the word turco (literally 'Turkish') identified the commercial origin of maize, or that it arrived in Italy by passing through Ottoman Greece and Asia.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ɡranoˈturko/
Noun
granoturco m (plural granoturchi)
- maize
Synonyms
- frumentone
- mais