Noun: flor
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | flor |
| Plural f | flores |
Sample Sentences
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1595, Luís Vaz de Camões, Rimas, Num bosque que das Ninfas se habitava (The yellow flowers there was gathering)
Nouns inflected like flor
bissetriz,
meretriz,
bisectriz,
palidez,
polidez,
diretriz,
eleitriz,
codorniz,
pinador,
nitidez,
micromatriz,
esqualidez,
liminar,
perfuratriz,
cupidez,
dura-máter,
perpendicular,
imperatriz,
pia-máter,
aboiz, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese flor, a learned borrowing from Latin flos, from Proto-Italic *flōs, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰléh₃s, from *bʰleh₃- + *-s.
2. Compare Galician flor, chor. See: Galician Nouns '
flor'.
Verbs referencing "flor"
Galician Nouns
flor.
Translations