🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

Molino de harina

Pronunciation / Transliteration: Molino de harina

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Flour mill/ˈflaʊ.ər mɪl/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #14500 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"El molino de harina del pueblo es muy famoso."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A facility where grain is ground into flour.

    "The local flour mill produces high-quality whole wheat flour."
  2. 2

    A machine used for grinding grain into flour.

    "She used a traditional stone flour mill to make her bread."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Middle English 'flour' (from Old French 'flour' or 'flor', meaning blossom or the finest part of meal) and Old English 'mylen' (from Late Latin 'molina', derived from 'molere', to grind). The term dates back to the medieval period when water and wind were first harnessed extensively to grind cereal grains into flour.

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