Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

farina

/fəˈɹiːnə/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 2.68 in modern English

Syllables: fa-ri-na
IPA: /fəˈɹiːnə/

9

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

3

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

A particular grade of wheat meal, commonly used as hot breakfast cereal in North America.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

A powdery, pale yellow, crystalline secretion consisting of flavonoids in Primula and other species.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Hot breakfast cereal made from prepared farina in milk.

Countable; Uncountable

name

A surname from Italian.

Etymology

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

Origin

Source language: Italian

Word Breakdown

Root: Farina

Usage

Subject

Wiktionary places this term in Food.

Inflected Forms

farinas (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

farinaceous farinaceously farinose farinulent

Synonyms

cream of wheat

Rhymes With

arena argentina nina marina christina tina serena lena regina katrina gina angelina

Questions

How do you pronounce farina?: The recorded pronunciation is /fəˈɹiːnə/.
What does farina mean?: 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.
Where does farina come from?: It is traced to Italian.

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