farinaceous

[prettygoodword]

farinaceous - adj., made from, rich in, or consisting in starch; having a mealy or powdery texture.


From Latin farinaceus, mealy, from farina.

---L.

Comments

Re: bh-->b-->f

[prettygoodword.livejournal.com]

I've heard the porridge < leeks one before, and was nonplussed.

---L.

Re: bh--b--f

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

It seems suspect to me, the sort of cod-etymology that gets propagated for decades once it gets into print by being uncritically cited wholesale and re-incorporated into a new work. Yes, porrum-->porro (modern Italian); but porrata (modern Italian) is a kind of leek quiche, and porridge has less to do with leeks and more to do with grain.

Leeks seem to have been carried northwards by the Romans and/or the French, but were already well-known; in Swedish they're purjolök, combining both words, the p-r form from Romance languages and the l-k or l-g forms from Germanic/Nordic.