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- Latin · borrowed fromfarrāgō“mixed fodder; mixture, hodgepodge”
- English todayfarrago
Borrowed from Latin farrāgō (“mixed fodder; mixture, hodgepodge”), from far (“emmer (a kind of wheat), coarse meal, grits”). Doublet of farro.
Words from the same roots
Latinfarrāgō all →
farraginous
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.