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farrago

See also: fárrago

English

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WOTD – 6 September 2011

Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin farrāgō (“mixed fodder; mixture, hodgepodge”), from far (“emmer (a kind of wheat), coarse meal, grits”). Doublet of farro.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /fəˈɹeɪɡoʊ/, /fəˈɹɑːɡoʊ/

Noun

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farrago (plural farragos or farragoes)

  1. A collection containing a confused variety of miscellaneous things.
    Synonyms: hodgepodge, melange, mingle-mangle; see also Thesaurus:hodgepodge
    • 1775 January 17 (first performance), [Richard Brinsley Sheridan], The Rivals, a Comedy. […], London: […] John Wilkie, […], published 1775, →OCLC, Act II, scene i, page 20:
      Yet do I carry every vvhere vvith me ſuch a confounded farago of doubts, fears, hopes, vviſhes, and all the flimſy furniture of a country Miſs's brain!
    • 1885 July, “A Forgotten Pamphleteer”, in Tinsleys’ Magazine, volume 37, London: Tinsley Brothers, page 84:
      Back in Paris, where all men adrift naturally float, he succeeded in publishing a fantastic novel, “Sortie d’un Rêve,” a farrago of all that is most foolish in the earlier romantic authors, with here and there a racy turn—“a personal note,” M. Zola would say.
    • a. 1900, William Barclay Squire, “Balfe, Michael William”, in Dictionary of National Biography, volume 3:
      Balfe's next work, 'The Maid of Artois,' was written to a libretto furnished by Bunn, the first of those astonishing farragoes of balderdash which raised the Drury Lane manager to the first rank amongst poetasters.
    • 1911, “Drama, 11f: Modern English Drama”, in Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition:
      Hastily adapted by slovenly hacks, their librettos (often witty in the original) became incredible farragos of metreless doggrel and punning ineptitude.
    • 1929 September, Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own, uniform edition, London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, […], published 1931 (April 1935 printing), →OCLC, page 72:
      Or, This is a farrago of absurdity, I could never feel anything of the sort myself.
    • 2005 November 7, Toronto Star:
      The original script is a complicated farrago of intertwined greed and lust, with marriages being planned and hearts being broken in order to accumulate fortunes as well as romance.

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Latin

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Etymology

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far (“emmer”) +‎ -āgō

Pronunciation

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Noun

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farrāgō f (genitive farrāginis); third declension

  1. a kind of hash, mixed fodder for animals
  2. mixture, hodgepodge

Declension

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Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative farrāgō farrāginēs
genitive farrāginis farrāginum
dative farrāginī farrāginibus
accusative farrāginem farrāginēs
ablative farrāgine farrāginibus
vocative farrāgō farrāginēs

Descendants

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References

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  • “farrago”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “farrago”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • farrago in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • farrago in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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