florecer

From Latin florēscere.

florecer

1. to flower (to put forth blooms)

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• flor

• florescer (reintegrationist)

From Latin florēscere.

florecer (first-person singular present florezo, first-person singular preterite florecín, past participle florecido)
florecer (first-person singular present floreço, first-person singular preterite florecim or floreci, past participle florecido, reintegrationist norm)

1. to flower (to put forth blooms)

• flor

From Latin flōrēscere.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /floɾeˈθeɾ/
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /floɾeˈseɾ/

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• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: flo‧re‧cer

florecer (first-person singular present florezco, first-person singular preterite florecí, past participle florecido)

1. to flower (to put forth blooms)
2. to flourish, to prosper, to burgeon
3. (reflexive, of a candle-wick) To have carbon build up on the end.
   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 284:

     Cuando el pabilo de la vela no se quema bien, se forma en el extremo una excrecencia que se llama flor. El florecerse la vela es augurio de riqueza, próxima o remota.

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• “florecer”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10