How do you pronounce maize?

The recorded pronunciation is /meɪz/.

maize

/meɪz/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.34 in modern English

Syllables: maize
IPA: /meɪz/

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Meaning

noun

Corn; a type of grain of the species Zea mays.

Countable; Uncountable

name

A surname, variant of Mayes.

name

A unisex given name.

Example Sentences

"But alass! these, when they had maize (yt is, Indean corne) they thought it as good as a feast, and wanted not only for 5. days togeather, but some time 2. or 3. months togeather, and neither had bread nor any kind of corne."
"A fundamental creative act of American man was the development of maize. For it was maize that made possible and sustained the whole Peruvian civilization as well as Mexican and Central American ones. Exactly where it originated is not known, but corn was found in pre-Mayan graves dating to 3000 B.C."

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish maíz, from Taíno *mahis, *mahisi, from Proto-Arawak *marikɨ. Cognate with Lokono marisi, Wayuu maiki.

Origin

Source language: Spanish

Word Breakdown

Root: maíz, *mahis, *marikɨ

Usage

Inflected Forms

maizes (plural) maiz (alternative, obsolete)

Derived Forms

maizebread maizefield maizeflour maizeless maizelike maizemeal maizestarch maizy nonmaize popmaize

Phrases

Hopi maize long maize maize-cream maize dance maize mushroom maize on the cob maize syrup maize weevil

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Synonyms

corn green corn Indian corn sugar corn sweet corn gamboge lemon lemon yellow

Homonyms

mays maze (pane–pain merger) mase

Rhymes With

days ways plays raise phase praise phrase pays stays essays displays rays