semolina

English semolina comes from earlier semolino, borrowed from Italian semolino, a diminutive of semola, itself from Latin simila, meaning 'finest wheat flour.' The Latin word traces back to an Aramaic term, סְמִידָא.

The word shrank as it moved: Italian added a diminutive ending to semola to make semolino, giving the sense of a smaller, finer version of that flour, which English then borrowed and reshaped into semolina.

Regional German Semmel, meaning 'bread roll,' is a comparable word tied to the same root sense of fine wheat flour.