English

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

Asturian

Alternative forms

• fariña

Etymology

From Latin farīna.

Noun

farina f ‎(plural farines)

1. flour (ground cereal grains)

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin farīna.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ina

Noun

farina f ‎(plural farines)

1. flour

Related terms

• fariner
• farinós

Corsican

Etymology

From Latin farīna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faˈrina/

Noun

farina f

1. flour

French

Verb

farina

1. third-person singular past historic of fariner

Italian

Etymology

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

Noun

farina f ‎(plural farine)

1. flour, meal

Related terms

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

Anagrams

• franai
• rafani

Ladino

Alternative forms

• arina

Etymology

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

Noun

farina f ‎(Latin spelling)

1. flour

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /faˈriː.na/

Noun

farīna f ‎(genitive farīnae); first declension

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

Inflection

First declension.

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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “farina”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Andrew L. Sihler (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, New York, Oxford, Oxford University Press

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