Dictionary

farina en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /fəˈɹaɪnə/
• /fəˈɹiːnə/

Etymology

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

Meanings

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.

Forms

Relateds

farinulent · farinaceously · farinose · farinaceous

Synonyms

cream of wheat

Translations (9)

zea frunne (fine flour) · pl manna (fine flour) · bg фино брашно (fine flour) · ar نَشَاء (fine flour) · pl kasza manna (fine flour) · et manna (fine flour) · zea frenne (fine flour) · pl grysik (fine flour) · el φαρίνα (fine flour)