sorgo

English

Etymology

Compare Italian sorgo.

Noun

sorgo (uncountable)

1. (dated) sorghum
   • 1964, Otto H. Coleman, I. E. Stokes, Storage studies of sorgo:

     Juice extraction remained constant for sorgo stalks kept wet, but it decreased gradually for dry stalks during 2 weeks storage.

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian and Spanish sorgo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈsɔr.ɡu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈsɔr.ɡo]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈsoɾ.ɣo]

Noun

sorgo m (plural sorgos)

1. sorghum

   Synonym: melca

Further reading

• “sorgo” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “sorgo”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “sorgo” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “sorgo” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

sorgo – Sorghum bicolor

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

sorgo n (uncountable)

1. sorghum

Esperanto

Etymology

From Russian со́рго (sórgo), English sorghum, French sorgho, all from Italian sorgo, from Latin syricus (“Syrian”). Doublet of Sirio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsorɡo]
• Rhymes: -orɡo
• Hyphenation: sor‧go

Noun

sorgo (accusative singular sorgon, plural sorgoj, accusative plural sorgojn)

1. sorghum

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔʁ.ɡo/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

sorgo m (plural sorgos)

1. post-1990 spelling of sorgho

Galician

Noun

sorgo m (plural sorgos)

1. sorghum (a cereal)

Further reading

• “sorgo”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsor.ɡo/, /ˈsɔr.ɡo/
• Rhymes: -orɡo, -ɔrɡo
• Hyphenation: sór‧go, sòr‧go

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin syricus (“Syrian”).

Noun

sorgo m (plural sorghi)

1. sorghum

   Synonyms: meliga, saggina

Descendants

• → Russian: со́рго (sórgo)
  • → Armenian: սորգո (sorgo)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

sorgo

1. first-person singular present indicative of sorgere

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔr.ɡɔ/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔrɡɔ
• Syllabification: sor‧go

Noun

sorgo n

1. sorghum

Declension

Declension of sorgo

	singular
nominative	sorgo
genitive	sorga
dative	sorgu
accusative	sorgo
instrumental	sorgiem
locative	sorgu
vocative	sorgo

Further reading

• sorgo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsoʁ.ɡu/ [ˈsoɦ.ɡu]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsoʁ.ɡu/ [ˈsoɦ.ɡu]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈsoɾ.ɡu/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈsoʁ.ɡu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsoɻ.ɡo/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsoɾ.ɡu/ [ˈsoɾ.ɣu]

Noun

sorgo m (plural sorgos)

1. sorghum (a cereal)

Further reading

• “sorgo” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin Syricum, from Syria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsoɾɡo/ [ˈsoɾ.ɣ̞o]
• Rhymes: -oɾɡo
• Syllabification: sor‧go

Noun

sorgo m (plural sorgos)

1. sorghum

   Synonym: zahína

Derived terms

• sorgo de Alepo

 

Further reading

• “sorgo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014