# farina
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fəˈɹiːnə/, /fəˈɹaɪnə/
* Rhymes: -iːnə, -aɪnə

### Noun

farina (countable and uncountable, plural farinas)
* 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.
* A particular grade of wheat meal, commonly used as hot breakfast cereal in North America.
* (botany) A powdery, pale yellow, crystalline secretion consisting of flavonoids in Primula and other species.
* Hot breakfast cereal made from prepared farina in milk.
    Synonym: cream of wheat

#### Translations
## Asturian
### Etymology

From Latin farīna.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /faˈɾina/ [faˈɾi.na]
* Rhymes: -ina
* Syllabification: fa‧ri‧na

### Noun

farina f (plural farines)
* (Western Asturias) Alternative form of fariña

## Catalan
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [fəˈɾi.nə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [faˈɾi.na]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ina

### Noun

farina f (plural farines)
* 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: /faˈrina/

### Noun

farina f
* flour

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

farina
* third-person singular past historic of fariner

## Italian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /faˈri.na/
* Rhymes: -ina
* Hyphenation: fa‧rì‧na

### Noun

farina f (plural farine)
* 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
* flour

## Latin
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

farīna f (genitive farīnae); first declension
* ground corn, flour, meal
* (by extension) dust, powder
* (by extension) matter of which a thing is composed, i. e. its nature, quality

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### 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

## Leonese
### Alternative forms

* fariña (Senabrese), jarina (Palra d'El Rebollal), harina (Riberan)

### Noun

farina f (plural farinas)
* (Alistanu, Patsuezu) flour

## Occitan
### Alternative forms

* haria (Gascony)

### Etymology

From Latin farīna.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Languedoc):(file)

### Noun

farina f (plural farinas)
* 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: /haˈɾina/

### Noun

farina f (plural farinas)
* 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)
* (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) flour

## Spanish
### Noun

farina f (plural farinas)
* 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