farrago Latin · revision 3872

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Varro|origins=itc-pro *fars}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [farˈraː.ɡoː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [farˈraː.ɡo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''farrāgō''' ''f'' (genitive farrāginis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|far|-āgō|t1=emmer, grain]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) ''Far'' is [[m|itc-pro|*fars|t=flour]]; de Vaan thinks the stem may be a loanword for a primitive grain.^(de Vaan 2008) Varro has a form [[m|la|ferrāgō]], made by popular etymology from [[ferrum]] “iron”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is found from Varro onwards.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) Varro uses it of a mixed crop.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was a mixed crop of inferior grains sown for animal fodder, as in Varro, Virgil and Pliny.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Festus defines it as what is given to draught animals from several crops.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Columella speaks of a barley ''farrago''.^(Georges 1913)

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+ Juvenal calls the varied contents of his book ''nostri farrago libelli'', “the hotchpotch of my little book”, and it came to mean a medley or a trifle.^(Georges 1913)^(Gaffiot 2016) Isidore says it is named from ''far'' and is barley grass still green.^(Isidore) English ''farrago'' “hodgepodge” was borrowed in the 1630s.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it of mixed fodder.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it in the Georgics.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 67–c. 127 AD – Juvenal uses it of the medley of his satires.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1630s – English ''farrago'' is borrowed.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A mixed crop of grains grown for [[m|en|fodder]], mash.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A [[m|en|medley]], hotchpotch.^(Georges 1913)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A trifle.^(Georges 1913)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[farrāginārium]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[far]]

+ * [[en|farrago]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}