Etymograph

English

farro

Farro comes from Italian farro ‘emmer’, and goes back to Proto-Italic *fars ‘flour, grain’.

  1. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*fars‘flour, grain’reconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfar‘emmer’
  3. Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CE*farrumreconstructed
  4. Italianc. 1300–presentfarro‘emmer’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 2007farro

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*fars‘flour, grain’reconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfar‘emmer’
  3. Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CE*farrumreconstructed
  4. Italianc. 1300–presentfarro‘emmer’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 2007farro

Earliest quotation: 2007, Florence Fabricant, For a Chilly Winter Day, Beef Pie With Polenta Crust: “At the Fountain restaurant in the Four Seasons Hotel,…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *bʰers- ‘spike, prickle’

brush, beard, braid, prod, bristle, borscht, fash, 16 more

through Latin far ‘emmer’

far, farina, 8 more

Today it means

noun Emmer wheat (Triticum turgidum).

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

Etymograph / Proto-Italic *fars / farro

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