What is the Latin word for flour?

The usual Latin words for “flour” are farīna, pollen, trīticeus; also farīnārius, farīnōsus, farīnulentus. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

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“flour” in Latin

farīnaground corn, flour, meal; dust, powder; matter of which a thing is composed, i. e. its nature, quality pollenflour, especially fine flour, milldust; the (very) fine powder or dust of other things trīticeuswheat; wheaten farīnāriusof or belonging to meal; farinaceous farīnōsusfloury, mealy; Used as a specific epithet farīnulentusmealy uōto put on (clothes etc.); don.

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

flour

(ground corn)(ground corn), farina (as well PROP. of corn as of things that may be bruised or ground like corn). Fine flour, farina minuta; pollen (if sifted): barley flour, wheat flour, farina hordeacea, triticea: belonging to flour, farinarius: full of flour, farinosus: looking like flour, farinulentus: containing flour, or of the nature of flour, farinaceus (Vet. Onomast.): food prepared from flour, *cibus e farina paratus: *puls e farina facta.

Quick answer

What is the Latin word for flour?: The usual Latin words for “flour” are farīna, pollen, trīticeus; also farīnārius, farīnōsus, farīnulentus. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.