semolina
pronunciation
How to pronounce semolina in British English:
UK [ˌseməˈli:nə]
How to pronounce semolina in American English:
US [ˌsɛməˈlinə]
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- Noun:
- milled product of durum wheat (or other hard wheat) used in pasta
Word Origin
- semolina
- semolina: [18] Latin simila meant ‘fine flour’ (it has given English the simnel [13] of simnel cake, which originally denoted ‘bread made from fine flour’). From it was descended Italian semola ‘bran’, whose diminutive form semolino was adapted into English as semolina.=> simnel
- semolina (n.)
- meal from hard kernels of wheat, 1797, alteration of Italian semolino "grits; paste for soups," diminutive of semola "bran," from Latin simila "the finest flour," probably from the same Semitic source as Greek semidalis "the finest flour" (compare Assyrian samidu, Syrian semida "fine meal").
Example
- 1. A pasta of north african origin made of crushed and steamed semolina .
- 2. Foods prepared from cereals , edible seeds , flour , semolina or mixtures thereof .
- 3. Cereals and cereal and semolina flours .
- 4. I 'll be trying one of the italian semolina bread recipes this weekend for an italian dinner party .
- 5. Man ( translated ) : " our problem is not to do with cooking oil , sugar or semolina . Our problem is with the injustice , the plundering of wealth and oppression . "