different between maize vs farina

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish maíz, from Taíno *mahis, *mahisi, from Proto-Arawak *marik?. Cognate with Arawak marisi, Wayuu maiki.

Pronunciation

• enPR: m?z, IPA^(key): /me?z/
• Rhymes: -e?z
• Homophone: maze

Noun

maize (countable and uncountable, plural maizes)

1. Corn; a type of grain of the species Zea mays.

   • A fundamental creative act of American man was the development of maize. For it was maize that made possible and sustained the whole Peruvian civilization as well as Mexican and Central American ones. Exactly where it originated is not known, but corn was found in pre-Mayan graves dating to 3000 B.C.

Synonyms

• (Zea mays): corn (US English, Canadian English); green corn, Indian corn, sugar corn, sweet corn

Translations

Further reading

• maize on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Zea mays on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Latvian

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *maiž-, an ablaut variant of *miež- (whence Latvian mieži (“barley”)), from Proto-Indo-European *mey?-, probably from the stem *h?meh?- (“to cut; to mow”) modified into *mey-, and with an added element *? (whence Proto-Baltic *ž, whence Latvian z). Cognates include Old Prussian mayse (“barley”) (misspelled as wayse in the 16th-century source), Old Iranian *maiz- "to sow".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [màjz?]

Noun

maize f (5th declension)

1. bread (foodstuff, baked from wheat, rye, sometimes corn)

2. bread dough

3. (poetic) cereals, cereal grains, especially rye, wheat

4. (figuratively) food, nutrition

5. (figuratively) essential, necessary element

6. (figuratively) livelihood, means of supporting oneself; work

Declension

Derived terms

• baltmaize, balta maize
• maizn?ca
• maiznieks, maizniece
• rupjmaize, rupja maize
• sviestmaize

References

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -i?n?

Noun

farina (countable and uncountable, plural farinas)

1. 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.

Translations

Asturian

Alternative forms

• fariña

Etymology

From Latin far?na.

Noun

farina f (plural farines)

1. flour (ground cereal grains)

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan farina, from Latin far?na.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /f???i.n?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /fa??i.na/
• Rhymes: -ina

Noun

farina f (plural farines)

1. flour

Derived terms

• enfarinar
• qui matina fa farina

Related terms

• fariner
• farinós

Further reading

• “farina” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “farina” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “farina” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “farina” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Corsican

Etymology

From Latin far?na.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa?rina/

Noun

farina f

1. flour

French

Verb

farina

1. third-person singular past historic of fariner

Italian

Etymology

From Latin far?na (“flour, meal”), from far (“kind of grain”).

Noun

farina f (plural farine)

1. flour, meal

Descendants

• ? Greek: ?????? (farína)

Related terms

• farinaccio
• farinaceo
• farinaio
• farinaiola
• farinoiolo
• farinata
• farinello
• farinevole
• farinoso
• infarinare
• sfarinarsi

Anagrams

• franai
• rafani

Ladino

Alternative forms

• arina

Etymology

From Old Spanish farina, from Latin far?na (“flour, meal”), from far (“kind of grain”).

Noun

farina f (Latin spelling)

1. flour

Latin

Etymology

From *farr?na, from far (“kind of grain”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /fa?ri?.na/, [fä??i?nä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fa?ri.na/, [f???i?n?]

Noun

far?na f (genitive far?nae); first declension

1. ground corn, flour, meal
2. (by extension) dust, powder
3. (by extension) matter of which a thing is composed, i. e. its nature, quality

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• far?n?rius
• far?n?sus
• far?nula
• far?nulentus

Related terms

Descendants

References

• farina in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• farina in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• farina in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• farina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, ?ISBN

Occitan

Alternative forms

• haria (Gascon)

Noun

farina f (plural farinas)

1. flour

Derived terms

• enfarinar
• farinèla
• farinièr
• farinièra
• farinós

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Latin far?na (“flour, meal”), from far (“spelt”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?a??i.na]

Noun

farina f (plural farinas)

1. flour
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 38r.

Descendants

• Ladino: farina
• Spanish: harina
  • ? Cebuano: harina
  • ? Tagalog: harina

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Sursilvan) frina
• (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) fregna

Etymology

From Latin far?na (“flour, meal”).

Noun

farina f (plural farinas)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) flour