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6-letter words (1 found)

FARINA,

5-letter words (2 found)

INFRA,NAIRA,

4-letter words (14 found)

AFAR,AIRN,ARIA,ARNA,FAAN,FAIN,FAIR,FIAR,FIRN,NAIF,RAIA,RAIN,RANA,RANI,

3-letter words (17 found)

AIA,AIN,AIR,ANA,ANI,ARF,FAA,FAN,FAR,FIN,FIR,FRA,RAI,RAN,RIA,RIF,RIN,

2-letter words (8 found)

AA,AI,AN,AR,FA,IF,IN,NA,

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Definitions and meaning of farina

farina

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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.
  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.

Translations

Asturian

Alternative forms

  • fariña

Etymology

From Latin farīna.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

farina f (plural farines)

  1. flour (ground cereal grains)

Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

farina f (plural farines)

  1. flour

Derived terms

  • enfarinar
  • qui matina fa farina

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.

Corsican

Etymology

From Latin farīna.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /faˈrina/

Noun

farina f

  1. flour

French

Pronunciation

Verb

farina

  1. third-person singular past historic of fariner

Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

farina f (plural farine)

  1. flour, meal

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

  • → Greek: φαρίνα (farína)

Further reading

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

Anagrams

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

Ladino

Alternative forms

  • arina

Etymology

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

Noun

farina f (Latin spelling)

  1. flour

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) 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. (by extension) dust, powder
  3. (by extension) matter of which a thing is composed, i. e. its nature, quality

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

  • farīnārius
  • farīnōsus
  • farīnula
  • farīnulentus

Related terms

Descendants

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

Occitan

Alternative forms

  • haria (Gascony)

Etymology

From Latin farīna.

Pronunciation

Noun

farina f (plural farinas)

  1. flour

Derived terms

  • enfarinar
  • farinèla
  • farinièr
  • farinièra
  • farinós

Old Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /haˈɾina/

Noun

farina f (plural farinas)

  1. flour

Descendants

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

Romansch

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From Latin farīna (“flour, meal”).

Noun

farina f (plural farinas)

  1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) flour

Spanish

Noun

farina f (plural farinas)

  1. Obsolete spelling of harina

Further reading

  • “farina”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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