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English

Etymology

From Latin Fl?ra (goddess of flowers).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fl??.??/
• Rhymes: -??r?

Noun

flora (countable and uncountable, plural floras or florae or floræ)

1. Plants considered as a group, especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc.
2. A book describing the plants of a country, region, time, etc.
   • 1999, J. G. Baker, Flora of Mauritius and the Seychelles

     He intended to publish a flora of the island, and drafted out a synonymic catalogue, into which he inserted from time to time elaborate descriptions drawn up from living specimens of the species which he was able to procure.

   • 2000, Daniel R. Headrick, When Information Came of Age (page 26)

     Nowhere was the victory of Linnaeanism more complete than in Britain. When William Hudson's Flora Anglica, organized in the Linnaean manner, appeared in 1762, it displaced all previous floras.

3. The microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body

   intestinal flora, gut flora

Synonyms

• (microorganisms): microflora

Derived terms

• dendroflora
• ethnoflora
• gut flora
• intestinal flora

Coordinate terms

• fauna

Translations

Anagrams

• folar

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?flo.??/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?flo.?a/

Noun

flora f (uncountable)

1. flora

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

From Latin Fl?ra (Roman goddess of flowers).

Noun

flora (more common word is nebatat)

1. flora

Declension

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajins?ko-kryms?kotatars?kyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]?^[1], Simferopol: Dolya, ?ISBN

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fl?ra, from Fl?ra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?flo?.ra?/
• Hyphenation: flo?ra
• Rhymes: -o?ra?

Noun

flora f (plural flora's)

1. flora (plant life, in particular the plant living or endemic in a certain area)

   Synonym: plantenwereld

2. flora (plant book)

   Synonyms: floragids, plantenboek

Derived terms

• darmflora
• floragids

Related terms

• Fleur
• fleurig
• florisant

Descendants

• Afrikaans: flora

Esperanto

Etymology

From floro +? -a.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?flora/
• Hyphenation: flo?ra
• Rhymes: -ora

Adjective

flora (accusative singular floran, plural floraj, accusative plural florajn)

1. (botany) floral

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch flora, from Latin Fl?ra (goddess of flowers), fl?s (“blossom”), from Proto-Italic *fl?s, from Proto-Indo-European *b?leh?-s (“flower, blossom”), from *b?leh?- (“to bloom”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?flora]
• Hyphenation: flo?ra

Noun

flora (first-person possessive floraku, second-person possessive floramu, third-person possessive floranya)

1. flora:
   1. (botany) plants considered as a group, especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc.
   2. (botany) a book describing the plants of a country, region, time, etc.
   3. (microbiology) the microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body.

Further reading

• “flora” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Noun

flora f (plural flore)

1. flora

Derived terms

• flora batterica

Anagrams

• farlo

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin Flora, goddess of flowers

Noun

flora m (definite singular floraen, indefinite plural floraer, definite plural floraene)

1. (botany) flora

References

• “flora” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “flora” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin Flora, goddess of flowers

Noun

flora m (definite singular floraen, indefinite plural floraer or floraar, definite plural floraene or floraane)

1. (botany) flora

References

• “flora” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Fl?ra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fl?.ra/

Noun

flora f

1. flora (“plants considered as a group”)

   Synonyms: ro?linno??, szata ro?linna

   Antonym: fauna

Usage notes

• Rarely used in the plural.

Declension

Further reading

• flora in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Noun

flora f (plural floras)

1. flora (plants of a region considered as a group)

Related terms

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flô?ra/
• Hyphenation: flo?ra

Noun

fl?ra f (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. flora

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?flo?a/, [?flo.?a]

Noun

flora f (plural floras)

1. flora

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

flora c

1. flora (vegetation, book)

   Antonym: fauna

Declension

French

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flo/

Noun

flo m (plural flos, feminine floune)

1. (Quebec) boy

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *fl??, from Proto-Indo-European *b?leh?- (“to blow”). Cognate with English blow, Old Armenian ?????? (be?un, “fertile”), Albanian plas (“to blow, explode”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /flo?/, [f??o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /flo/, [fl?]

Verb

fl? (present infinitive fl?re, perfect active fl?v?, supine fl?tum); first conjugation

1. I breathe, blow

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

• flo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• flo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• flo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• fla, fleo, vlo

Etymology

From Old English fl?, from fl?n reanalysed as a plural, from Proto-Germanic *flainaz. Compare flon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fl??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

flo (plural flon or floon)

1. An arrow, especially one used with a long bow (projectile weapon emitted from a bow)
2. (figuratively) Anything felt to have a (metaphorically) piercing effect.

Descendants

• English: flo

References

• “fl?, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-04.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse flóð

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flu?/, [flu??]
• Homophone: flod

Noun

flo f or m (definite singular floa or floen, indefinite plural floer, definite plural floene)

1. high tide

Synonyms

• høyvann, høgvatn (Nynorsk also), høgvann, høyvatn

Antonyms

• fjære (Nynorsk also), fjøre (Nynorsk also)
• lavvann, lågvatn (Nynorsk also), lågvann, lavvatn
• ebbe (Nynorsk also)

Derived terms

• flo og fjære (“ebb and flow”)
• springflo
• stormflo

See also

• flod (Nynorsk)
• tidevann (“tide”)

References

• “flo” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flu?/ (example of pronunciation)

Etymology 1

From Old Norse fló (“surface, layer”).

Noun

flo f (definite singular floa, indefinite plural floer or flør, definite plural floene or flørne)

1. a horizontal layer

Inflection

Etymology 2

From Old Norse flóð f or n. Akin to English flood. Doublet of flod.

Noun

flo f (definite singular floa, indefinite plural floer or flør, definite plural floene or flørne)

1. a rain shower

Inflection

Etymology 3

Verb

flo

1. (non-standard since 1938) past tense of flå

References

• “flo” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• fol

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) flad
• (Puter) fled
• (Vallader) flà

Etymology

From Latin fl?tus.

Noun

flo m (plural flos)

1. (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) breath (of air)

Derived terms

• (Sutsilvan) trer flo
• (Surmiran) trer igl flo

Vietnamese

Etymology

From French fluor, from Latin fluor.

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [fl???], [f???? l???]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [fl???], [f???? l???]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [fl???], [f???? l???]
• Phonetic: phlo, ph? lo

Noun

flo

1. fluorine