Borrowed from French céréale ("having to do with cereal"), from Latin Cerealis ("of or relating to Ceres"), from Ceres, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- ("grow"), from which also Latin sincerus (English sincere) and Latin crēscō (English crescent).
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