farrago
See also: fárrago
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin farrāgō (“mixed fodder; mixture, hodgepodge”), from far (“spelt (a kind of wheat), coarse meal, grits”) (English farro).
Pronunciation
Noun
farrago (plural farragos or farragoes)
- A collection containing a confused variety of miscellaneous things.
- Synonyms: hodgepodge, hotchpotch, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag
- a. 1900 William Barclay Squire, Balfe, Michael William, article 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, article 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, Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, Penguin Books, paperback edition, 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.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:hodgepodge
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
confused miscellany
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See also
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /farˈraː.ɡoː/, [färˈräːɡoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /farˈra.ɡo/, [färˈräːɡo]
Noun
farrāgō f (genitive farrāginis); third declension
- A kind of hash
- Mixture, hodgepodge
Declension
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
- Catalan: farratge
- English: farrago, farraginous
- Galician: ferraña, ferrán
- Italian: farragine, fraina
- Portuguese: farragem
- Sardinian: farràine, farrani, forrani
- Spanish: herrén, fárrago, rain
References
- “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.
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