farro

See also: Farro and fárro

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian farro. Doublet of far.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfæɹəʊ/
  • Homophone: farrow
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈfæɹoʊ/, /ˈfɑːroʊ/
  • Homophones: farrow, pharaoh, Faro

Noun

farro (countable and uncountable, plural farros)

1. Emmer wheat (Triticum turgidum).
   • 2007 February 14, Florence Fabricant, “For a Chilly Winter Day, Beef Pie With Polenta Crust”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     At the Fountain restaurant in the Four Seasons Hotel, near the institute, squab stuffed with fava beans and farro, an Egyptian grain, comes gilded with gold leaf […] .

   • 2019, Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, Ethan Becker, Joy of Cooking: 2019 Edition, page 338:

     All three farros are sold as a whole grain.

Related terms

• farrago

Translations

emmer wheat

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 法老小麥／法老小麦 (fǎlǎo xiǎomài)

• Dutch: emmertarwe (nl) f, tweekoren n
• Finnish: emmervehnä (fi)
• Serbo-Croatian: bijela pšenica f, bela pšenica f

Catalan

Alternative forms

• farre

Etymology

Inherited from Latin far.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈfa.ru]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈfa.ro]

Noun

farro m (plural farros)

1. course type of grain

References

• “farro” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaro/ [ˈfa.rʊ]
• Rhymes: -aro
• Hyphenation: fa‧rro

Etymology 1

From Latin far.

Noun

farro m (plural farros)

1. barleymeal

Etymology 2

Unknown

Noun

farro m (plural farros)

1. goldfinny wrasse

References

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “farro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “farro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “farro”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin *farrum, from Latin far (“emmer”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfar.ro/
• Rhymes: -arro
• Hyphenation: fàr‧ro

• Audio:

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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

Descendants

• → English: farro

Further reading

• farro on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

Anagrams

• forra

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.ʁu/ [ˈfa.hu]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.ʁu/ [ˈfa.hu]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.ʁu/ [ˈfa.χu]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.ʁo/ [ˈfa.ho]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.ʁu/

• Rhymes: -aʁu
• Hyphenation: far‧ro

Noun

farro m (uncountable)

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

Sidamo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaɾːo/
• Hyphenation: far‧ro

Noun

farro m 

1. tail

Declension

Declension of farro (masculine)

	unmodified	modified
predicative	farro
nominative	farru	farri
genitive	farru*)	farri*)
dative	farroho	farrira
accusative	farro*)
ablative	farrunni	farrinni
*) Stressed on the final vowel.

References

• Kazuhiro Kawachi (2007) A grammar of Sidaama (Sidamo), a Cushitic language of Ethiopia, page 38
• Gizaw Shimelis, editor (2007), “farro”, in Sidaama-Amharic-English dictionary, Addis Ababa: Sidama Information and Culture department

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaro/ [ˈfa.ro]
• Rhymes: -aro
• Syllabification: fa‧rro

Noun

farro m (plural farros)

1. emmer (grain)

Further reading

• “farro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28