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farina

See also: Farina, fariña, fariñes, and fãrinã

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Etymology Edit

Borrowed from Latin farīna (“flour, meal”), from far (“kind of grain”).

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Noun Edit

farina (countable and uncountable, plural farinas)

  1. A fine flour or meal made from cereal grains or from the starch or fecula of vegetables, extracted by various processes, and used in cookery.
  2. A particular grade of wheat meal, commonly used as hot breakfast cereal in North America.
  3. Hot breakfast cereal made from prepared farina in milk, more commonly known by the trademark name Cream of Wheat.

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Asturian Edit

 
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Alternative forms Edit

Etymology Edit

From Latin farīna.

Pronunciation Edit

  • IPA(key): /faˈɾina/, [faˈɾi.na]
  • Rhymes: -ina
  • Hyphenation: fa‧ri‧na

Noun Edit

farina f (plural farines)

  1. flour (ground cereal grains)

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Etymology Edit

Inherited from Latin farīna. Compare Occitan farina or harina, French farine, Spanish harina.

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Noun Edit

farina f (plural farines)

  1. flour

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Further reading Edit

Corsican Edit

Etymology Edit

From Latin farīna.

Pronunciation Edit

Noun Edit

farina f

  1. flour

French Edit

Pronunciation Edit

Verb Edit

farina

  1. third-person singular past historic of fariner

Italian Edit

 
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Etymology Edit

From Latin farīna (“flour, meal”), from far (“kind of grain”).

Pronunciation Edit

  • IPA(key): /faˈri.na/
  • Rhymes: -ina
  • Hyphenation: fa‧rì‧na

Noun Edit

farina f (plural farine)

  1. flour, meal

Derived terms Edit

Related terms Edit

Descendants Edit

  • → Greek: φαρίνα (farína)

Further reading Edit

  • farina in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams Edit

Ladino Edit

Alternative forms Edit

Etymology Edit

From Old Spanish farina, from Latin farīna (“flour, meal”), from far (“kind of grain”).

Noun Edit

farina f (Latin spelling)

  1. flour

Latin Edit

Etymology Edit

From *farrīna, from far (“kind of grain”).

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Noun Edit

farīna f (genitive farīnae); first declension

  1. ground corn, flour, meal
  2. (by extension) dust, powder
  3. (by extension) matter of which a thing is composed, i. e. its nature, quality

Declension Edit

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative farīna farīnae
Genitive farīnae farīnārum
Dative farīnae farīnīs
Accusative farīnam farīnās
Ablative farīnā farīnīs
Vocative farīna farīnae

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References Edit

  • “farina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “farina”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • farina in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • farina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN

Occitan Edit

Alternative forms Edit

Etymology Edit

From Latin farīna.

Pronunciation Edit

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Noun Edit

farina f (plural farinas)

  1. flour

Derived terms Edit

Old Spanish Edit

Etymology Edit

Inherited from Latin farīna (“flour, meal”), from far (“spelt”). Compare Old Galician-Portuguese farinha.

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Noun Edit

farina f (plural farinas)

  1. flour
    • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 38r.
      E dixo ella biua el ſénor dios q́ no e pan ſi nó un poco de farina en la tinẏella. E un poco de olẏo éna olẏera […]
      And she said, “As the Lord God lives, I have no bread, but only some flour in a jar and a little oil in an oil jug. […] ”.

Descendants Edit

  • Ladino: farina
  • Spanish: harina (see there for further descendants)

Romansch Edit

Alternative forms Edit

Etymology Edit

From Latin farīna (“flour, meal”).

Noun Edit

farina f (plural farinas)

  1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) flour

Spanish Edit

Noun Edit

farina f (plural farinas)

  1. Obsolete spelling of harina

Further reading Edit

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