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farina¹

  • /fəˈɹiːnə/
  • /fəˈɹaɪnə/

Rhymes with -iːnə, -aɪnə

Where it comes from

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

noun farinas

  1. countable, uncountable 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. countable, uncountable A particular grade of wheat meal, commonly used as hot breakfast cereal in North America.
  3. countable, uncountable A powdery, pale yellow, crystalline secretion consisting of flavonoids in Primula and other species.
  4. countable, uncountable Hot breakfast cereal made from prepared farina in milk.

    Similar: cream of wheat

Farina²

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Italian Farina.

proper noun Farinas

  1. A surname from Italian.

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noun fine flour

Ελληνικάφαρίνα farína
العربيةنَشَاء našāʔ

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@misc{farina_2026,
  title = {farina},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/farina},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}