flour – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of flour

Noun: flour
Sg.flour
Pl.floures

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • Whan that Auerill wᵗ his shoures soote / The droghte of march hath ꝑced to the roote / And bathed euery veyne in swich lycour / Of which v̄tu engendred is the flour[…] (When that April, with its sweet showers / Has pierced March's drought to the root / And bathed every vein in fluid such that / with its power, the flower is made […]) [1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “Here Bygynneth the Book of the Tales of Caunt́burẏ”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published [c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 2, recto:]
  • Now is þat ſchip. þat bar þe flour. / Selden seȝe. and sone foꝛȝete. (Now that ship which bore the acme is / Rarely seen and quickly forgotten.) [c. 1390, “Edward þe þridde”, in Sowlehele (Vernon Lyrics, Bodleian MS. Eng. poet. a. 1), Worcestershire, folio 411, recto; republished at Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 10 January 2019:]

Nouns inflected like flour

wheston, scarth, scough, schour, scherd, scheld, schalk, schaft, smythy, bombard, bochous, hereditament, syngyng, peretre, bastard, conquest, comaundour, patroun, pacient, playing, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman flur, from Latin flōrem, accusative of flōs. More at flower.

Verbs referencing "flour"

English Nouns flower, Old Norse Nouns flúr.

Translations