farina

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

• IPA^(key): /fəˈɹiːnə/, /fəˈɹaɪnə/
• Rhymes: -iːnə, -aɪnə

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.

• fariña

From Latin farīna.

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

farina f (plural farines)

1. flour (ground cereal grains)

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

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

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• Rhymes: -ina

farina f (plural farines)

1. flour

• enfarinar
• qui matina fa farina

• fariner
• farinós

• “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.

From Latin farīna.

• IPA^(key): /faˈrina/

farina f

1. flour

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farina

1. third-person singular past historic of fariner

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

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

farina f (plural farine)

1. flour, meal

• → Greek: φαρίνα (farína)

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

• Arfani, farnia, fraina, franai, rafani, ranfia

• arina

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

farina f (Latin spelling)

1. flour

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

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

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

First-declension noun.

• farīnārius
• farīnōsus
• farīnula
• farīnulentus

• Borrowings:
  • → English: farina

• “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

• haria (Gascony)

From Latin farīna.

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farina f (plural farinas)

1. flour

• enfarinar
• farinèla
• farinièr
• farinièra
• farinós

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

• IPA^(key): /haˈɾina/

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. […] ”.

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

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

From Latin farīna (“flour, meal”).

farina f (plural farinas)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) flour

farina f (plural farinas)

1. Obsolete spelling of harina.

• “farina”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28