"flor" meaning in Portuguese

See flor in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈfloʁ/ [Brazil], [ˈfloh] [Brazil], /ˈfloɾ/ [São-Paulo], /ˈfloʁ/ [Rio-de-Janeiro], [ˈfloχ] [Rio-de-Janeiro], /ˈfloɻ/ [Caipira], /ˈfloɾ/ [Portugal], /ˈflo.ɾi/ [Portugal, Southern] Forms: flores [plural], chor [alternative], fror [alternative, archaic, dialectal], frol [alternative, archaic, dialectal], flôr [alternative, obsolete], chôr [alternative, obsolete], fulô [alternative, Northeast-Brazil, pronunciation-spelling]
Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -oɾ, (Brazil) -oʁ Etymology: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese flor, a learned borrowing from Latin flos, from Proto-Italic *flōs, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰléh₃s, from *bʰleh₃- + *-s. Compare Galician flor, chor. Etymology templates: {{etymon|pt|:inh|roa-opt:flor<id:flower>|id=flower|text=++}} [Appendix:Glossary#learned_borrowing|Learned borrowing]] from", "terms" : [ { "id" : "flower", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "flower", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "alt" : "*bʰléh₃s", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "status" : "inline", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "bloom", "children" : [ ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*bʰleh₃-", "lang" : "ine-pro" }, { "id" : "hysterokinetic", "children" : [ ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-s", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Italic", "term" : "*flōs", "lang" : "itc-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "flos", "lang" : "la" } ], "keyword" : "lbor" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Old Galician-Portuguese", "term" : "flor", "lang" : "roa-opt" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Portuguese", "term" : "flor", "lang" : "pt" }" data-id="flower" data-lang="pt" data-title="flor" id="Portuguese:_flower"> Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese flor, a learned borrowing from Latin flos, from Proto-Italic *flōs, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰléh₃s, from *bʰleh₃- + *-s., {{cog|gl|flor}} Galician flor Head templates: {{pt-noun|f}} flor f (plural flores)
  1. flower Tags: feminine Synonyms: xiluva
    Sense id: en-flor-pt-noun-wGsM~gzF Categories (other): Portuguese entries with etymology texts, Portuguese entries with etymon, Portuguese entries with incorrect language header, Flowers Disambiguation of Portuguese entries with etymology texts: 28 45 28 Disambiguation of Portuguese entries with etymon: 27 47 27 Disambiguation of Portuguese entries with incorrect language header: 27 45 27 Disambiguation of Flowers: 79 17 4
  2. (figuratively) a delicate, feminine woman or girl Tags: feminine, figuratively
    Sense id: en-flor-pt-noun-KPdGXGI- Categories (other): Portuguese entries with etymology texts, Portuguese entries with etymon, Portuguese entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Portuguese entries with etymology texts: 28 45 28 Disambiguation of Portuguese entries with etymon: 27 47 27 Disambiguation of Portuguese entries with incorrect language header: 27 45 27
  3. surface Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-flor-pt-noun-djzcYqhp Categories (other): Portuguese entries with etymology texts, Portuguese entries with etymon, Portuguese entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Portuguese entries with etymology texts: 28 45 28 Disambiguation of Portuguese entries with etymon: 27 47 27 Disambiguation of Portuguese entries with incorrect language header: 27 45 27
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: chorudo, chorume, flora, floração, floral, florão, florescer, floricultura

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
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      "ipa": "/ˈfloʁ/",
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    },
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      "ipa": "[ˈfloh]",
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        "Brazil"
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfloɾ/",
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfloʁ/",
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        "Rio-de-Janeiro"
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      "ipa": "[ˈfloχ]",
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      "ipa": "/ˈfloɻ/",
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      "ipa": "/ˈflo.ɾi/",
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      "rhymes": "(Brazil) -oʁ"
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  "word": "flor"
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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.