farina

See also: Farina, fariña, fariñes, and fãrinã

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːnə

Noun

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.

Translations

fine flour

• Arabic: نَشَاء f (našāʔ)
• Bulgarian: фино брашно n (fino brašno)
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• Greek: φαρίνα (el) f (farína)

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Asturian

Alternative forms

• fariña

Etymology

From Latin farīna.

Noun

farina f (plural farines)

1. flour (ground cereal grains)

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Catalan

Etymology

From , from Latin farīna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [fəˈɾi.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [faˈɾi.na]
• Rhymes: -ina

Noun

farina f (plural farines)

1. flour

Derived terms

• enfarinar

Related terms

• fariner
• farinós

Further reading

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

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Corsican

Etymology

From Latin farīna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faˈrina/

Noun

farina f

1. flour

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French

Verb

farina

1. third-person singular past historic of fariner

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Italian

Etymology

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

Noun

farina f (plural farine)

1. flour, meal

Descendants

• → Greek: φαρίνα (farína)

Related terms

• farinaccio
• farinaceo
• farinaio
• farinaiola
• farinoiolo
• farinata
• farinello
• farinevole
• farinoso
• infarinare
• sfarinarsi

Anagrams

• franai
• rafani

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Ladino

Alternative forms

• arina

Etymology

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

Noun

1. flour

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Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /faˈriː.na/, [fäˈriːnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /faˈri.na/, [fäˈriːnä]

Noun

farīna f (genitive farīnae); first declension

1. ground corn, flour, meal
2. dough
3. (by extension) dust, powder

Declension

First-declension noun.

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

Derived terms

• farīnārius
• farīnōsus
• farīnula
• farīnulentus

Related terms

• far
• farrāceus
• farrāgō
• farrārius
• farrātus

• farreārius
• farreātus
• farreus
• farriculum

Descendants

• Aragonese: farina
• Aromanian: fãrinã
• Corsican: farina
• Dalmatian: faraina
• Emilian: faréṅna
• → English: farina
• Franco-Provençal: farena
• Friulian: farine
• Istriot: fareîna
• Italian: farina
  • → Greek: φαρίνα (farína)
• Ladin: farina
• Lombard: farina
• Megleno-Romanian: fărínă
• Old French: farine
  • Middle French: farine
    • French: farine
      • Haitian Creole: farin
      • Karipúna Creole French: fahin
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: fariña, farina, ḥarina, ḥariña
  • Mirandese: farina
• Old Occitan: farina
  • Catalan: farina
  • Occitan: farina, haria
• Old Galician-Portuguese: farỹa, farinna
  • Fala: fariña
  • Galician: fariña, faría (Galician-Asturian)
  • Portuguese: farinha
    • Guinea-Bissau Creole: forinha
    • Korlai Creole Portuguese: fari
    • Kristang: farinya
    • → Kaingang: farĩnh
• Old Spanish: farina
  • Ladino: farina
  • Spanish: harina
    • → Cebuano: harina
    • → Tagalog: harina
• Piedmontese: farina
• Romagnol: faròina
• Romanian: făină
• Romansch: farina, fregna, frina
• Sardinian: farína
• Sicilian: farìna
• Venetian: farina
• Walloon: farenn

References

• “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

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Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Sursilvan) frina
• (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) fregna

Etymology

From Latin farīna (“flour, meal”).

Noun

farina f (plural farinas)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) flour