farina

See also: Farina, fariña, fariñes, and fãrinã

English

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. (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

Translations

fine flour

• Arabic: نَشَاء f (našāʔ)
• Bulgarian: фино брашно n (fino brašno)
• Estonian: manna (et)
• Greek: φαρίνα (el) f (farína)
• Polish: grysik (pl) m, kasza manna (pl) f, manna (pl) f
• Zealandic: frunne f, frenne f (Brazilian Zealandic)

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin farīna.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

farina f (plural farines)

1. (Western Asturias) Alternative form of fariña

Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio:

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• 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, 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.

Corsican

Etymology

From Latin farīna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faˈrina/

Noun

farina f

1. flour

French

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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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

• farinaccio
• farinaio
• farinata
• farinello
• farinevole
• infarinare
• sfarinarsi

Related terms

• farinaceo
• farinaiola
• farinoiolo
• farinoso

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

1. flour

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) 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.

	singular	plural
nominative	farīna	farīnae
genitive	farīnae	farīnārum
dative	farīnae	farīnīs
accusative	farīnam	farīnās
ablative	farīnā	farīnīs
vocative	farīna	farīnae

Derived terms

• farīnārius
• farīnōsus
• farīnula
• farīnulentus

Related terms

• far
• farrāceus
• farrāgō
• farrārius
• farrātus
• farreārius
• farreātus
• farreus
• farriculum

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: fãrinã
  • Istro-Romanian: fărirĕ
  • Megleno-Romanian: fărină
  • Romanian: fărină, făină
• Dalmatian:
  • faraina
• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: farina
  • Italian: farina
    • → Greek: φαρίνα (farína)
  • Neapolitan: fàrina
  • Sicilian: farìna
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: farína
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: farine
  • Ladin: farina
  • Romansch: farina, fregna, frina
• North Italian:
  • Istriot: fareîna
  • Venetan: farina
  • Gallo-Italian:
    • Emilian: faréṅna
    • Lombard: farina
    • Piedmontese: farin-a
    • Romagnol: faròina
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: farena
  • Oïl:
    • Old French: farine
      • Middle French: farine
        • French: farine (see there for further descendants)
    • Walloon: farenn
  • Oc:
    • Catalan: farina
    • Old Occitan: farina
      • Occitan: farina, haria
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: farina
  • Old Leonese:
    • Asturian: fariña, farina, ḥarina, ḥariña
    • Mirandese: farina
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: farinha, farinna, fariña (Galicia), farinna, fariña
    • Fala: fariña
    • Galician: fariña, faría
    • Portuguese: farinha (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Spanish: farina
    • Ladino: arina
    • Spanish: harina (see there for further descendants)

• Borrowings:
  • → English: farina

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

• Audio (Languedoc):

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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 (“emmer”). Compare Old Galician-Portuguese farinha.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /haˈɾina/

Noun

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. […] ”.

Descendants

• Ladino: arina
• 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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10