different between farro vs wheat

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian farro.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?fæ???/
  • Homophone: farrow
• (US) IPA^(key): /?fæ?o?/, /?f??ro?/
  • Homophones: farrow, pharaoh, Faro

Noun

farro (uncountable)

1. Emmer wheat (Triticum turgidum).

Related terms

• farrago

Translations

Galician

Noun

farro m (plural farros)

1. emmer (Triticum turgidum, a species of wheat)
2. flour made with barley
3. corkwing wrasse

Italian

Etymology

From Medieval Latin *farrum, from Latin far (“spelt”).

Noun

farro m (plural farri)

1. emmer (Triticum dicoccum)

   Synonym: farro medio

2. spelt (Triticum spelta)

   Synonyms: granfarro, spelta

Derived terms

• granfarro (“spelt”)
• farro medio (“emmer wheat”)
• farro piccolo (“einkorn wheat”)
• farrotto

Further reading

• farro on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

Portuguese

Noun

farro m (uncountable)

1. emmer (Triticum turgidum, a species of wheat)

Sidamo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fa??o/

Noun

farro m

1. tail

References

• Kazuhiro Kawachi (2007) A grammar of Sidaama (Sidamo), a Cushitic language of Ethiopia, page 38

Spanish

Noun

farro m (plural farros)

1. emmer (grain)

English

Wikispecies

Alternative forms

• wheate (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English whete, from Old English hw?te, from Proto-West Germanic *hwait?, from Proto-Germanic *hwaitijaz (compare West Frisian weet, Dutch weit, Low German Weten, German Weizen, Danish hvede, Swedish vete, Norwegian Nynorsk kveite, Icelandic hveiti), from *hw?taz (“white”). More at white.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wi?t/
• (without the wine–whine merger) IPA^(key): /?i?t/
• Rhymes: -i?t

Noun

wheat (countable and uncountable, plural wheats)

1. (countable) Any of several cereal grains, of the genus Triticum, that yields flour as used in bakery.
2. (uncountable) A light brown colour, like that of wheat.

Synonyms

• (a plant of the genus Triticum): triticum

Coordinate terms

• (grains in Triticum): barley, fonio, maize/corn, millet, oats, rice, rye, sorghum, triticale

Translations

Adjective

wheat (not comparable)

1. Wheaten, of a light brown colour, like that of wheat.

Translations

Derived terms

Related terms

• white

See also

Anagrams

• Hewat, wathe