infarinare
Appearance
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From in- + farina (“flour”) + -are. Compare Catalan enfarinar, French enfariner, Portuguese enfarinhar, Romanian înfăina, Sicilian nfarinari, Spanish enharinar.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]infarinàre (first-person singular present infarìno, first-person singular past historic infarinài, past participle infarinàto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive, cooking) to flour, to sprinkle with flour (e.g. for frying)
- (transitive, figurative, uncommon) to whiten, to powder, to turn (something) white
- (transitive, figurative, rare) to give a smattering of knowledge to (someone) [with di ‘about something’]
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of infarinàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- infarinare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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