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Galician
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin floccus (“tuft of wool”).
Pronunciation
Noun
floco m (plural flocos)
- flake (a thin chiplike layer of anything)
- Synonyms: foula (“dust”), folerpa (“snowflake”)
Derived terms
References
- “floco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin floccus (“tuft of wool”). Doublet of froco.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɔku
- Hyphenation: flo‧co
Noun
floco m (plural flocos)
- flake (a thin chiplike layer of anything)
- Synonyms: folheca (“snowflake”), folipa (“snowflake”)
- sorvete de flocos ― chocolate chip ice cream (literally, “flake ice cream”)
- tuft (bunch of feathers, grass or hair, etc., held together at the base)
- Synonym: tufo
Derived terms