farrago
See also: fárrago
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin farrāgō (“mixed fodder; mixture, hodgepodge”), from far (“spelt (a kind of wheat), coarse meal, grits”). Doublet of farro.
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Noun edit
farrago (plural farragos or farragoes)
- A collection containing a confused variety of miscellaneous things.
- Synonyms: hodgepodge, melange, mingle-mangle; see also Thesaurus:hodgepodge
- 1885 July, “A Forgotten Pamphleteer”, in Tinsleys’ Magazine, volume 37, London: Tinsley Brothers, page 84:
- Back in Paris, where all men adrift naturally float, he succeeded in publishing a fantastic novel, “Sortie d’un Rêve,” a farrago of all that is most foolish in the earlier romantic authors, with here and there a racy turn—“a personal note,” M. Zola would say.
- a. 1900, William Barclay Squire, “Balfe, Michael William”, in Dictionary of National Biography, volume 3:
- Balfe's next work, 'The Maid of Artois,' was written to a libretto furnished by Bunn, the first of those astonishing farragoes of balderdash which raised the Drury Lane manager to the first rank amongst poetasters.
- 1911, “Drama, 11f: Modern English Drama”, in Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition:
- Hastily adapted by slovenly hacks, their librettos (often witty in the original) became incredible farragos of metreless doggrel and punning ineptitude.
- 1929 September, Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own, uniform edition, London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, […], published 1931 (April 1935 printing), →OCLC, page 72:
- Or, This is a farrago of absurdity, I could never feel anything of the sort myself.
- 2005 November 7, Toronto Star:
- The original script is a complicated farrago of intertwined greed and lust, with marriages being planned and hearts being broken in order to accumulate fortunes as well as romance.
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confused miscellany
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Latin edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /farˈraː.ɡoː/, [färˈräːɡoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /farˈra.ɡo/, [färˈräːɡo]
Noun edit
farrāgō f (genitive farrāginis); third declension
- A kind of hash, mixed fodder for animals
- Mixture, hodgepodge
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | farrāgō | farrāginēs |
| Genitive | farrāginis | farrāginum |
| Dative | farrāginī | farrāginibus |
| Accusative | farrāginem | farrāginēs |
| Ablative | farrāgine | farrāginibus |
| Vocative | farrāgō | farrāginēs |
Descendants edit
- Italo-Romance:
- Old Italian: farraggine
- Sardinian: farràine, farrani, forrani
- → Italian: ferrana
- North Italian
- Occitano-Romance:
- West Iberian:
- Borrowings:
- → English: farrago, farraginous
- → Italian: farragine
- → Portuguese: farragem (semi-learned)
- → Spanish: fárrago
References edit
- “farrago”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “farrago”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- farrago 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)
- farrago in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.