Borrowed fromLatinfarīna(“flour, meal”), fromfar(“kind of grain”).

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

farina (countable anduncountable,pluralfarinas)

1. A fineflour ormeal made from cereal grains or from thestarch orfecula of vegetables, extracted by various processes, and used in cookery.
2. A particular grade ofwheatmeal, commonly used as hot breakfast cereal in North America.
3. (botany) A powdery, pale yellow, crystalline secretion consisting offlavonoids inPrimula and other species.
4. Hot breakfast cereal made from prepared farina in milk.

   Synonym:cream of wheat

FromLatinfarīna.

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

farina f (pluralfarines)

1. (Western Asturias)Alternative form offariña

Inherited fromLatinfarīna. CompareOccitanfarina orharina,Frenchfarine,Spanishharina.

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

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• Rhymes:-ina

farina f (pluralfarines)

1. flour

• enfarinar
• qui matina fa farina

• fariner
• farinós

• “farina” inDiccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició,Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “farina”, inGran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana,Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana,2025
• “farina” inDiccionari normatiu valencià,Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “farina” inDiccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

FromLatinfarīna.

• IPA^(key):/faˈrina/

farina f

1. flour

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farina

1. third-personsingular past historic offariner

FromLatinfarīna(“flour, meal”), fromfar(“kind of grain”).

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

farina f (pluralfarine)

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

FromOld Spanishfarina, fromLatinfarīna(“flour, meal”), fromfar(“kind of grain”).

farina f

1. flour

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

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

farīna f (genitivefarīnae);first declension

1. groundcorn,flour,meal
2. (by extension)dust,powder
3. (by extension)matter of which a thing is composed, i. e. itsnature,quality

First-declension noun.

• farīnārius
• farīnōsus
• farīnula
• farīnulentus

• Borrowings:
  • → English:farina

• “farina”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “farina”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "farina", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• farina inGaffiot, 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 (pluralfarinas)

1. (Alistanu, Patsuezu)flour

• haria(Gascony)

FromLatinfarīna.

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farina f (pluralfarinas)

1. flour

• enfarinar
• farinèla
• farinièr
• farinièra
• farinós

Inherited fromLatinfarīna(“flour, meal”), fromfar(“emmer”). CompareOld Galician-Portuguesefarinha.

• IPA^(key):/haˈɾina/

farina f (pluralfarinas)

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 defarina en la tinẏella. E un poco de olẏo éna olẏera[…]

     And she said, “As the Lord God lives, I have no bread, but only someflour 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)

FromLatinfarīna(“flour, meal”).

farina f (pluralfarinas)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun,Puter,Vallader)flour

farina f (pluralfarinas)

1. Obsolete spelling ofharina.

• “farina”, inDiccionario 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