semola

Borrowed from Italian semola, from Latin simila (“fine flour”). Doublet of semla and semel.

semola (uncountable)

1. (archaic) semolina

• maleos, lame-os, lameos, amoles, Meolas, Salome, moales, almose, selma'o

From Latin simila (“finest wheat flour”). For the unexpected /o/ in the second syllable, compare -evole.

• IPA^(key): /ˈse.mo.la/
• Rhymes: -emola
• Hyphenation: sé‧mo‧la

semola f (plural semole)

1. semolina (coarse grains of hard wheat used to make pasta)

   Synonym: semolino

2. (by extension) bran (broken coat of the seed of cereal grain)

   Synonyms: crusca, cruschello

• semolato
• semolino

• → English: semola (archaic)
• → French: semoule
• → Portuguese: sêmola
• → Spanish: sémola

• Salomè, salmoè, semalo, somale