floret

English

Florets of a sunflower

Alternative forms

• florette

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fləˈɹɛt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛt

Noun

floret (plural florets)

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

Synonyms

• floweret

Translations

small flower

• Czech: kvítek m
• French: fleuron (fr) m
• Manx: blaag f
• Russian: цветок (ru) m (cvetok)
• Spanish: flósculo (es) m

Anagrams

• Lefort, forlet, lofter, torfel

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian fioretto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [fluˈɾɛt]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [floˈɾət]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [floˈɾet]

Noun

floret m (plural florets)

1. (fencing) foil

Further reading

• “floret” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “floret”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “floret” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “floret” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

floret f (plural floretten, diminutive floretje n)

1. (fencing) foil

Further reading

• “floret” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

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.rɛt/
• 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

• floretowy

 

nouns

• florecista
• florecistka

 

Further reading

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