different between eclectic vs farrago

English

Alternative forms

• eclectick (obsolete)

Etymology

From French éclectique, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (eklektikós, “selective”), from ?????? (eklég?, “I pick, choose”), from ?? (ek, “out, from”) + ???? (lég?, “I choose, count”).

Cognate to elect

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?l?k.t?k/, /??kl?k.t?k/
• Rhymes: -?kt?k

Adjective

eclectic (comparative more eclectic, superlative most eclectic)

1. Selecting a mixture of what appears to be best of various doctrines, methods or styles.
   • 1893, John Robson, Hinduism and its Relations to Christianity, page 211, 214

     Chunder Sen and the Progressive Brahmists broke entirely with Hinduism...and he selected from the scriptures of all creeds what seemed best in them for instruction and for worship. […] It is an eclectic religion: it seeks to select what is good from all religions, and it has become the latest evidence that no eclectic religion can ever influence large numbers of men.

2. Unrelated and unspecialized; heterogeneous.

Synonyms

• (unrelated and unspecialized): heterogeneous; see also Thesaurus:heterogeneous

Antonyms

• (selecting a mixture of doctrines): exclusive, homogeneous, orthodox, standard, uniform; see also Thesaurus:homogeneous

Derived terms

• eclectically
• eclecticism

Translations

See also

• cherry pick
• heteroclite
• holistic

Noun

eclectic (plural eclectics)

1. Someone who selects according to the eclectic method.

Translations

Romanian

Etymology

From French éclectique

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e?klek.tik/

Adjective

eclectic m or n (feminine singular eclectic?, masculine plural eclectici, feminine and neuter plural eclectice)

1. eclectic

Declension

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin farr?g? (“mixed fodder; mixture, hodgepodge”), from far (“spelt (a kind of wheat), coarse meal, grits”) (English farro).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f???e??o?/, /f??????o?/

Noun

farrago (plural farragos or farragoes)

1. A collection containing a confused variety of miscellaneous things.

   Synonyms: hodgepodge, hotchpotch, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag

   • a. 1900, William Barclay Squire, Balfe, Michael William, article in Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 3,

     Balfe's next work, 'The Maid of Artois,' was written to a libretto furnished by Bunn, the first of those astonishing farragoes of balderdash which raised the Drury Lane manager to the first rank amongst poetasters.

   • 1911, Drama, 11f: Modern English Drama, article in Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition,

     Hastily adapted by slovenly hacks, their librettos (often witty in the original) became incredible farragos of metreless doggrel and punning ineptitude.

   • 1929, Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 72

     Or, This is a farrago of absurdity, I could never feel anything of the sort myself.

   • 2005 November 7, Toronto Star,

     The original script is a complicated farrago of intertwined greed and lust, with marriages being planned and hearts being broken in order to accumulate fortunes as well as romance.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:hodgepodge

Derived terms

• farraginous

Related terms

• farro

Translations

See also

• bric-a-brac
• eclectic
• grab bag
• heteroclite
• miscellany

Latin

Etymology

far (“spelt”) +? -?g?

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /far?ra?.?o?/, [fär?rä??o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /far?ra.?o/, [f?r?r????]

Noun

farr?g? f (genitive farr?ginis); third declension

1. A kind of hash, mixed fodder for animals
2. Mixture, hodgepodge

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

• Catalan: farratge
• ? English: farrago, farraginous
• Galician: ferraña, ferrán
• Italian: farragine, fraina
• Portuguese: farragem
• Sardinian: farràine, farrani, forrani
• Spanish: herrén, fárrago, rain

References

• farrago in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• farrago in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• farrago in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• farrago in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette