# farrago
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin farrāgō (“mixed fodder; mixture, hodgepodge”), from far (“emmer (a kind of wheat), coarse meal, grits”). Doublet of farro.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fəˈɹeɪɡoʊ/, /fəˈɹɑːɡoʊ/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Noun

farrago (plural farragos or farragoes)
* A collection containing a confused variety of miscellaneous things.
    Synonyms: hodgepodge, melange, mingle-mangle; see also Thesaurus:hodgepodge
** 1775 January 17 (first performance), [Richard Brinsley Sheridan], The Rivals, a Comedy. […], London: […] John Wilkie, […], published 1775, →OCLC, Act II, scene i, page 20:Yet do I carry every vvhere vvith me ſuch a confounded farago of doubts, fears, hopes, vviſhes, and all the flimſy furniture of a country Miſs's brain!
** 1885 July, “A Forgotten Pamphleteer”, in Tinsleys’ Magazine, volume 37, London: Tinsley Brothers, page 84:Back in Paris, where all men adrift naturally float, he succeeded in publishing a fantastic novel, “Sortie d’un Rêve,” a farrago of all that is most foolish in the earlier romantic authors, with here and there a racy turn—“a personal note,” M. Zola would say.
** a. 1900, William Barclay Squire, “Balfe, Michael William”, in Dictionary of National Biography, volume 3:Balfe's next work, 'The Maid of Artois,' was written to a libretto furnished by Bunn, the first of those astonishing farragoes of balderdash which raised the Drury Lane manager to the first rank amongst poetasters.
** 1911, “Drama, 11f: Modern English Drama”, in Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition:Hastily adapted by slovenly hacks, their librettos (often witty in the original) became incredible farragos of metreless doggrel and punning ineptitude.
** 1929 September, Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own, uniform edition, London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, […], published 1931 (April 1935 printing), →OCLC, page 72:Or, This is a farrago of absurdity, I could never feel anything of the sort myself.
** 2005 November 7, Toronto Star:The original script is a complicated farrago of intertwined greed and lust, with marriages being planned and hearts being broken in order to accumulate fortunes as well as romance.

#### Derived terms

* farraginous

#### Related terms

* farro

#### See also

* bric-a-brac
* eclectic
* grab bag
* heteroclite
* miscellany

## Latin
### Etymology

far (“emmer”) +‎ -āgō

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /farˈraː.ɡoː/, [färˈräːɡoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /farˈra.ɡo/, [färˈräːɡo]

### Noun

farrāgō f (genitive farrāginis); third declension
* a kind of hash, mixed fodder for animals
* mixture, hodgepodge

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Descendants

* Insular Romance:
** Sardinian: farràine, farrani, ferràina, forrani
* Italo-Romance:
** Italian: farraggine, farragine (latinized), ferrana
* Gallo-Italic:
** Lombard: fraina
*** → Italian: fraina
* Gallo-Romance:
** Catalan: farratge
** Old Occitan: farratge, ferrage
*** Occitan: ferratge
* Ibero-Romance:
** Old Galician-Portuguese: ferrãe
*** Galician: ferraña, ferrán
*** Portuguese: ferrã
** Old Spanish: ferranne, ferraine, ferrén
*** Spanish: herrén, rain
* Borrowings:
** → English: farrago, farraginous
** → Portuguese: farragem (semi-learned)
** → Spanish: fárrago

### References

* “farrago”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “farrago”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* "farrago", 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)
* farrago in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.