Translation
flour
Word origin
From Latin farina, ground meal, from far, a coarse grain the Romans grew. English farinaceous and the Italian farina keep the same root.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- farina
- English cognates
- farinaceous, farina
Examples
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She put the flour into a big bag.
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To bake bread you need flour, water and salt.
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The table was white with flour.
No seam here. The root is - and nothing else. Beginners who have just met fari, to do or make, sometimes read as far- plus a suffix, but there is no -un- suffix in Esperanto and flour has nothing to do with making. The two words are unrelated borrowings that happen to start alike.
is the powder; greno is the grain it was ground from.
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