name
Meaning 1
A surname from Italian.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
farina
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/fəˈɹiːnə/
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/fəˈɹaɪnə/
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CMU ARPABET: F ER0 IY1 N AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 3
A particular grade of wheat meal, commonly used as hot breakfast cereal in North America.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 4
A powdery, pale yellow, crystalline secretion consisting of flavonoids in Primula and other species.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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noun
Meaning 5
Hot breakfast cereal made from prepared farina in milk.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: cream of wheat
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
fine meal made from cereal grain especially wheat; often used as a cooked cereal or in puddings
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: meal
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian Farina.
Borrowed from Latin farīna (“flour, meal”), from far (“kind of grain”).
Across languages
Translations
9 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: نَشَاء (našāʔ) — fine flour
- Bulgarian: фино брашно (fino brašno) — fine flour
- Estonian: manna — fine flour
- Greek: φαρίνα (farína) — fine flour
- Polish: grysik — fine flour
- Polish: kasza manna — fine flour
- Polish: manna — fine flour
- Zealandic: frunne — fine flour
- Zealandic: frenne — fine flour
Real reading context