floret

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English

Florets of a sunflower

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Etymology

From Old French florete, diminutive of flor (“flower”). Doublet of fleuret and floweret.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fləˈɹɛt/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛt

Noun

floret (plural florets)

  1. A small flower, especially one of a cluster in a composite flower.

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Catalan

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Etymology

Borrowed from Italian fioretto.

Pronunciation

Noun

floret m (plural florets)

  1. (fencing) foil

Further reading

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

floret f (plural floretten, diminutive floretje n)

  1. (fencing) foil

Further reading

  • “floret” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie.

Indonesian

Noun

floret (first-person possessive floretku, second-person possessive floretmu, third-person possessive floretnya)

  1. foil

Kashubian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Florett.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈflɔ.rʲɛt/
  • Syllabification: flo‧ret

Noun

floret m inan

  1. (fencing) foil

Further reading

  • “floret”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

Latin

Verb

flōret

  1. third-person singular present active indicative of flōreō

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Florett, from French fleuret, from Italian fioretto.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈflɔ.rɛt/
  • Rhymes: -ɔrɛt
  • Syllabification: flo‧ret

Noun

floret m inan

  1. (fencing) foil

Declension

Declension of floret
singular plural
nominative floret florety
genitive floretu floretów
dative floretowi floretom
accusative floret florety
instrumental floretem floretami
locative florecie floretach
vocative florecie florety

Derived terms

adjective
nouns

Further reading

  • floret in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • floret in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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