fleur
See also: Fleur
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]fleur (plural fleurs)
Related terms
[edit]Franco-Provençal
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fleur (plural fleur) (Bressan, Graphie de Conflans) (Valdôtain, Graphie BREL)
References
[edit]- fleur in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
- fleur in Patois VdA: Le site du Francoprovençal en Vallée d'Aoste – on patoisvda.org
French
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Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old French flur, flour, flor, from Latin flōrem (“flower; the finest part of something”), from Proto-Italic *flōs, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃-s (“flower, blossom”), from *bʰleh₃- (“to bloom”). In some senses, from Middle French fleur (“surface, upper side, top layer”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *flōraz (“floor”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
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fleur f (plural fleurs)
- (botany) flower; bloom; blossom; collectively, the reproductive organs and the envelope which surrounds them in angiosperms (also called "flowering plants")
- Je suis allé cueillir une fleur dans les champs.
- I went to pick a flower in the fields.
- Il m’a offert de magnifiques fleurs.
- He offered me magnificent flowers.
- (metonymically) flowering plant; angiosperm; the plant with flowers itself
- Les orchidées sont des fleurs recherchées.
- Orchids are sought-after flowers.
- (figuratively) a kind favor given by one person to another
- Il m’a fait une fleur.
- He gave me a kind favor.
- (figuratively) the best of something
- Voici la fine fleur de la jeunesse française.
- Here's the cream of the crop of French youth.
- Mourir à la fleur de l’âge.
- to die in the prime of life
- (figurative) the virginity of a woman
- (Can we date this quote?), Jean de la Fontaine, Fables
- Il est bon de garder sa fleur ; mais pour l’avoir perdue il ne se faut pas pendre.
- It is good to guard one's blossom, but for having lost it one should not hang oneself.
- (Can we date this quote?), Jean de la Fontaine, Fables
- (archaic, chemistry) Substances with a state of purity or extreme separation, produced by sublimation
- Fleurs de soufre, de zinc, d’arsenic, d’antimoine.
- refinements of sulfur, zinc, arsenic, antimony
Synonyms
[edit]- (flowering plant): angiosperme
- (kind favor): aide, faveur, service
- (best of something): crème de la crème, élite, gratin, meilleur, nec plus ultra
- (virginity): vertu, virginité
Hypernyms
[edit]- (flower, bloom, blossom): arbre, inflorescence, capitule, ombelle, plante
Hyponyms
[edit]- (flower, bloom, blossom): bractée, carpelle, étamine, fleuron, pédoncule, pétale, pistil, sépale, tépale
Meronyms
[edit]- (flower, bloom, blossom): androcée, calice, corolle, gynécée, involucre, périgone, périanthe, réceptacle floral
Derived terms
[edit]- à fleur de
- à fleur de peau
- à la fleur de l’âge
- affleurement
- affleurer
- chou-fleur
- comme une fleur
- couvrir quelqu’un de fleurs
- défleurir
- déflorer
- effleurir
- Empire des Fleurs
- en fleur, en fleurs
- envoyer les fleurs
- faire une fleur
- fine fleur
- fleur au fusil
- fleur bleue
- fleur de farine
- fleur de la passion
- fleur de lis
- fleur de lys
- fleur de sel
- fleur de vin
- fleur des morts
- fleur des pois
- fleurdelisé
- fleurdeliser
- fleurdelysé
- fleurdelyser
- fleuré
- fleurette
- fleuri
- fleurir
- fleurissant
- fleuriste
- fleuristerie
- fleuron
- fleuronné
- fleurs de rhétorique
- jeter des fleurs
- la fleur au fusil
- langage des fleurs
- le serpent est caché sous les fleurs
- les quatre fleurs
- mille-fleurs
- ni fleurs, ni couronnes
- passe-fleur
- pot à fleur
- pot de fleur
- refleurir
- s’envoyer des fleurs
- Terre des Fleurs
- zeauzeau fleur
Descendants
[edit]- Haitian Creole: flè
See also
[edit]- effleurer
- efflorescence
- efflorescent
- fleuret
- fleureté
- floraison
- floral
- flore
- inflorescence
- passiflore
- quadriflore
- uniflore
Further reading
[edit]- “fleur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowing from late Old French fleur.
Noun
[edit]fleur (plural fleurs)
- Alternative form of flour
Walloon
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French flor, flur, from Latin flōs, flōrem, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“flower, blossom”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fleur f (plural fleurs)
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