different between starch vs farina

English

Etymology

From Middle English starche (noun), from *starche, sterch (“stiff”, adj), an assibilated form of Middle English stark, sterk (“strong; stiff”), from Old English stearc (“stark; strong; rough”). Compare Middle High German sterke, German Stärke. More at stark.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /st??t?/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /st??t?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t?

Noun

starch (countable and uncountable, plural starches)

1. (uncountable) A widely diffused vegetable substance, found especially in seeds, bulbs and tubers, as extracted (e.g. from potatoes, corn, rice, etc.) in the form of a white, glistening, granular or powdery substance, without taste or smell, and giving a very peculiar creaking sound when rubbed between the fingers. It is used as a food, in the production of commercial grape sugar, for stiffening linen in laundries, in making paste, etc.
2. (nutrition, countable) Carbohydrates, as with grain and potato based foods.
3. (uncountable) A stiff, formal manner; formality.

   • this Professor is to give the society their stiffening, and infuse into their manners that beautiful political starch, which may qualify them for Levées, Conferences, Visits

4. (uncountable) Fortitude.
5. (countable) Any of various starch-like substances used as a laundry stiffener

Derived terms

• starchy
• cornstarch
• potato starch

Translations

Verb

starch (third-person singular simple present starches, present participle starching, simple past and past participle starched)

1. To apply or treat with laundry starch, to create a hard, smooth surface.

   She starched her blouses.

Translations

Adjective

starch (not comparable)

1. Stiff; precise; rigid.
   • 1713, John Killingbeck, Eighteen sermons on practical subjects

     misrepresenting Sobriety as a Starch and Formal, and Vertue as a Laborious and Slavish thing

Derived terms

• starchness

Translations

References

• starch in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• charts, crasht, trachs

Cimbrian

Adjective

starch

1. strong
2. loud

References

• Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

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