Etymograph

English

farinata

Farinata comes from Italian farina ‘flour, meal’, and goes back to Latin far ‘kind of grain’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfar‘kind of grain’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEfarīna‘flour, meal’
  3. Italianc. 1300–presentfarina‘flour, meal’
  4. Italian, derivedc. 1300–presentfarinata
  5. Englishearliest quotation 2014same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history not traced here.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfar‘kind of grain’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEfarīna‘flour, meal’
  3. Italianc. 1300–presentfarina‘flour, meal’
  4. Italian, derivedc. 1300–presentfarinata
  5. Englishearliest quotation 2014same form

Earliest quotation: 2014, Ligaya Mishan, Hungry City: Fitzcarraldo in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn: “To begin: a Ligurian specialty, farinata, half pancake, half…”

Linked words

through Latin far ‘kind of grain’

far, farro, 8 more

Today it means

noun A flat baked pancake, somewhat similar to a pizza, made from chickpea flour and olive oil.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Latin far / farinata

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