Feminine
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flor

  1. (feminine) flower (structure or plant)
  2. (feminine, figuratively) best, finest, pick
  3. (feminine) film (solid or opaque layer on a liquid)

Frequency

B2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈfloɾ/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese flor, a learned borrowing from Latin flos, from Proto-Italic *flōs, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃-. The variant chor shows the expected phonetic evolution of Latin /fl-/. Compare Portuguese flor.

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