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Latin Farrago Fuh Rah Go Fuh Ray Go Noun Plural Confused Mixture

Front farrago \fuh-RAH-go; fuh-RAY-go\
Back noun [plural: farragoes]
A confused mixture; an assortment; a medley.

["Farrago" might seem an unlikely relative of "farina" (the mealy breakfast cereal), but the two terms have their roots in the same Latin noun. Both derive from "far," the Latin name for "spelt" (a type of grain). In Latin, "farrago" meant "mixed fodder" — cattle feed, that is — or it was used more generally to mean "mixture." When it was adopted into English in the early 1600s, "farrago" retained the "mixture" sense of its ancestor. Today, we often use it for a jumble or medley of disorganized, haphazard, or even nonsensical ideas or elements.]

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