fluor

From Latin fluor.

• (US) IPA^(key): /fluɔɹ/

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fluor (countable and uncountable, plural fluors)

2. (dated) The mineral fluorite.
3. (obsolete) A flow or flux.
4. (obsolete, in the plural) Menstrual periods.

   Synonym: flowers

• fluor albus
• fluorine
• fluorite
• fluoroid
• fluorspar

• fluoranthene
• fluorescence
• fluorophor, fluorophore
• fluorosis

• fluor-

• flour, four L, furol, orful, rufol

• IPA^(key): /fluor/

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• Rhymes: -uor, -or
• Hyphenation: flu‧or

fluor inan

1. fluorine

• “fluor”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia
• “fluor”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia , Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

Learned borrowing from Latin fluōrem (“flowing”).

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fluor m (uncountable)

1. fluorine

• fluorar
• fluorur

• “fluor”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies , April 2007
• “fluor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “fluor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “fluor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Czech Wikipedia has an article on:

fluor

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• fluór

Borrowed from Latin fluor.

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: fluor

fluor m inan

1. fluorine

• “fluor”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “fluor”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “fluor”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

From Medieval Latin fluor, from Latin fluere (“to flow”).

• IPA^(key): /fluːər/,

fluor n or c (singular definite fluoret or fluoren, not used in plural form)

1. fluorine (symbol F)

• fluorescens
• fluorescere
• fluorid

• fluor on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da
• “fluor” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

fluor

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Borrowed from Latin fluor.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfly.ɔr/,

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• Hyphenation: flu‧or

fluor n (uncountable)

1. the chemical element fluorine (symbol: F)

• fluoresceren
• fluoride

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

Estonian Wikipedia has an article on:

fluor

Wikipedia ^et

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fluor (genitive fluori, partitive fluori)

1. fluorine

• “fluor”, in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
• “fluor”, in Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
• fluor in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

French Wikipedia has an article on:

fluor

Wikipedia ^fr

From Latin fluor.

• IPA^(key): /fly.ɔʁ/

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fluor m (uncountable)

1. fluorine (chemical element)

• phthore (obsolete)

• fluorescent

• “fluor”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

 fluor on Hungarian Wikipedia

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: flu‧or
• Rhymes: -or

fluor (usually uncountable, plural fluorok)

1. fluorine (chemical element)

• fluorid

• fluor in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

fluor

1. future infinitive of fluar

fluor (plural fluor-fluor)

1. fluor

fluor (uncountable)

1. fluorine

Borrowed from German Fluor.

• IPA^(key): /ˈflu.ɔr/
• Rhymes: -uɔr
• Syllabification: flu‧or

fluor m inan

1. fluorine

• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “fluor”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎

From fluō (“I flow”) +‎ -or, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlew- (“to swell, flow”).

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fluor m (genitive fluōris); third declension

1. flow (act of flowing)

Third-declension noun.

• fluo

• “fluor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

fluor

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fluor m or n (definite singular fluoren or fluoret)

1. fluorine (chemical element, symbol F)

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

fluor

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fluor m or n (definite singular fluoren or fluoret, uncountable)

1. fluorine (as above)

Occitan Wikipedia has an article on:

fluor

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From Latin fluor.

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fluor m (uncountable)

1. fluorine

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fluor m

1. seed
2. seed field

• Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

fluor

Wikipedia ^pl

Internationalism; compare English fluorine, French fluor, German Fluor, ultimately from Latin fluor.

• IPA^(key): /ˈflu.ɔr/

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• Rhymes: -uɔr
• Syllabification: flu‧or

fluor m inan

1. fluorine

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

Romanian Wikipedia has an article on:

fluor

Wikipedia ^ro

Borrowed from French fluor, from Latin fluor (“flow”).

• IPA^(key): /fluˈor/, /flor/
• Hyphenation: flu‧or

fluor n (uncountable)

1. fluorine (chemical element)

• fluoriza
• fluorizare

• “fluor”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

From Latin fluorum.

• IPA^(key): /flǔo̞ːr/
• Hyphenation: flu‧or

flȕōr m inan (Cyrillic spelling флу̏о̄р)

1. fluorine

• “fluor”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

From Latin fluor.

• IPA^(key): /flúːɔr/

flȗor m inan

1. fluorine

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• “fluor”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:

fluor

Wikipedia ^sv

From Latin fluor.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfloːr/

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• Homophone: flår

fluor n or c

1. fluorine

• fluorsköljning
• fluortant

• fluor in Svensk ordbok (SO)

• fluor in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Svensk MeSH