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Definition: Farina |
FarinaNoun1. Fine meal made from cereal grain especially wheat; often used as a cooked cereal or in puddings. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "farina" was first used: sometime in the late 14th century. (references) |
Etymology: Farina \Fa*ri"na\, noun. [Latin expression, meal, flour, from far sort of grain, spelt; akin to English barley.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Food & Agriculture | The coarsely ground bolted endosperm of wheats other than durum, free from fine flour and from bran. Source: European Union. (references) |
| An odourless tasteless polysaccharide, occuring widely in plants as a carbohydrate store, obtained from potatoes. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Literature | Farina Ejusdem farinæ. Other rubbish of the same sort. Literally, "Other loaves of the same batch." Our more usual expressions are, "Others of the same kidney," "others of the same feather," "others tarred with the same brush." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Farina, Illinois."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Pulverulence | Powder, dust, sand, shingle; sawdust; grit; meal, bran, flour, farina, rice, paddy, spore, sporule; crumb, seed, grain; particle. (smallness); limature, filings, debris, detritus, tailings, talus slope, scobs, magistery, fine powder; flocculi. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Farina |
| English words defined with "farina": Fossil farina. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "farina": farina V.S. ♦ thawing kettle. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "farina": Farrago. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Farina" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Italian (Farina, flour, meal, plain flour), Latin (farina, flour, ground wheat, meal, meal or flour), Occitan (flour, meal), Provencal (flour), Romansch (flour). |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Fable of Elvira and Farina and the Meal Ticket (1915) Farina e... Feste (1980) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Porto Farina, Tunisia. A German raft, boot and helmet in water after American and British soldiers frustrated the evacuation attempt of German 10th and 15th panzer divisions.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Allied soldiers inspect the wreckage of one of the tanks of the German Tenth and Fifteenth Panzer Divisions. Photo made at Porto Farina where the Nazis were trapped.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Porto Farina, Tunisia. Allied truck passing wrecked German tanks.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Port Farina beachside strewn with a wide assortment of Nazi military debris and a Nazi half-track in the water.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Porto Farina, Tunisia. Girl kissing a United States Army war correspondent.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Pile of German helmets left by the Tenth and Fifteenth Panzer Divisions when their evacuation attempts from Porto Farina were frustrated.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | An American correspondent in an Army Jeep is welcomed with a kiss by a young lady in Porto Farina after the Allies frustrated the German evacuation attempts.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Farina" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Farina" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 13 | 97,576 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "farina" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Farina | Last name | 2,000 | 6,704 |
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1. Farina, IL (village, FIPS 25375) |
Expressions using "farina": farina V.S. ♦ Fossil farina. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "farina"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | Niseshte (starch), Miell I Ashpër. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | دقيق (accurate, careful, close, delicate, elaborate, exact, express, fine, flour, inappreciable, infinitesimal, intangible, just, keen, mathematical, meal, nearness, nice, painstaking, particular, pernickety, precise, punctilious, punctual, rigorous, scrupulous, searching, sharp, sound, specific, straightforward, strict, ticklish, tiny, touchy, tricky, true, veracious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Прашец, Нишесте, "рис, Брашно, Скорбяла. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | Pokrm (dish, flummery, fricassee, pinole, quenelle, repast, Sillabub, victual). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | kartoffelstivelse (potato starch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | aardappelzetmeel (potato starch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | perunatärkkelys (potato starch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | Farine, farina, fécule de pomme de terre. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Mehl (coarse meal, fine dust, flour, grinding, ground grain, meal, milling, powder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | άμυλο γεωμήλου (potato starch), άμυλο πατάτας (potato starch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Liszt (flour, meal, whole wheat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kanji (starch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | fecola di patate (potato flour, potato starch), Farina (fine dust, flour, meal, plain flour). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | arinafay Farinha (flour, meal), fécula de batatas (potato starch), fécula de batata (potato starch), Fécula (fecula, starch, starch flour), Vasto (all-embracing, boundless, colossal, deep, extensive, extensively, far reaching, great, huge, immense, open, spacious, sweeping, vast, vasty, wide), Amido (amylum, cornflour, starch). (various references) Fãinã De Cartofi, Pudrã (meal, powder), Praf (dry, dust, meal, powder). (various references) Мука, Манная Крупа. (various references) brašno (flour). (various references) fécula de patata (potato flour, potato starch), Harina (breadstuff, fine dust, flour, meal). (various references) potatisstärkelse (potato starch). (various references) ผลิต ั"ฑ์ที่ทำจากธัญพืช. (various references) Toz (dust, granulated, powder), Nişasta (amyl, starch), Mısır Unu (cornflour), Ýrmik, Çiçek Tozu. (various references) Фаріна, Тонкий Порошок. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | farina. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "farina": farinaceous, farinas. (additional references) | |
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"Farina" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Afaria, affina, affrine, Afina, afrika, Arigna, barina, Barisna, Darina, Darinda, Fabryka, facian, fagina, Fainaru, Faine, Faini, fairn, Fairuza, Falrinne, Farahnaz, farakat, faran, Faraneh, farena, Farida, Faridah, Farika, Farin, farine, farinha, Farini, farinx, farita, Farnan, Farnie, faron, Farran, Farrans, Farrenc, Farron, fatina, fatine, Fatiya, Fayiqah, Fegina, femina, Feriha, ferin, ferina, Ferlini, Fernau, Ferrin, Ferrini, Figini, Fiorini, firmian, foina, forin, Forryan, frain, Franja, Fratini, Fraxino, Frayne, Frena, Frinza, Furiani, Furiant, Garcinia, harina, Harjinda, Kaarina, narnian. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "farina" (pronounced ferē"nu) |
| 4 | -er ē" n u | arena, ballerina, Marina. |
| 3 | -ē" n u | cantina, catena, concertina, galena, hyena, Mina, patina, Pina, Regina, Salina, subpoena, vena, verbena, Vina. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-f-i-n-r" | |
-1 letter: infra, naira. | |
-2 letters: afar, airn, aria, fain, fair, fiar, firn, naif, raia, rain, rani. | |
-3 letters: ain, air, ana, ani, arf, fan, far, fin, fir, ran, ria, rif, rin. | |
-4 letters: aa, ai, an, ar, fa, if, in, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-f-i-n-r" | |
+1 letter: farinas, farinha. | |
+2 letters: farinhas, filarian, foramina, paraffin, rainfall, safranin, unafraid, warfarin. | |
+3 letters: affraying, antidraft, antifraud, fabricant, fairyland, foraminal, franglais, mainframe, paraffins, rainfalls, safariing, safranine, safranins, seafaring, sharifian, warfarins, wayfaring. | |
+4 letters: affirmance, fabricants, fairylands, fantasizer, faradising, faradizing, fascinator, fractional, frangipane, frangipani, fraxinella, fricandeau, fruitarian, handicraft, infrahuman, mainframes, microfauna, paraffined, paraffinic, ragamuffin, safranines, seafarings, unfamiliar. | |
+5 letters: acriflavine, affirmances, affirmation, antiwelfare, fabricating, fabrication, fantasizers, farinaceous, farraginous, farthingale, fascinators, filamentary, firmamental, flagrancies, fractionate, fragrancies, frangipanes, frangipanis, frangipanni, frantically, fraxinellas, fricandeaus, fricandeaux, fruitarians, grandiflora, handicrafts, infantryman, infrahumans, interfacial, microfaunae, microfaunal, microfaunas, paraffining, profanation, ragamuffins, rarefaction. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 61 72 69 6E 61 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .- .-. .. -. .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01100001 01110010 01101001 01101110 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F a r i n a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0061 0072 0069 006E 0061 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)406784758067 |
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