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. (botany) A powdery, pale yellow, crystalline secretion consisting of flavonoids in Primula and other species.
4. Hot breakfast cereal made from prepared farina in milk.

   Synonym: cream of wheat

From Latin farīna.

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

farina f (plural farines)

1. (Western Asturias) alternative form of fariña

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 [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “farina”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “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

1. flour

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

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

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

• fariña (Senabrese), jarina (Palra d'El Rebollal), harina (Riberan)

farina f (plural farinas)

1. (Alistanu, Patsuezu) flour

• 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

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

farina f (plural farinas)

1. obsolete spelling of harina

harina

• “farina”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024