flor – Old Portuguese noun declension

Old Portuguese noun forms of flor

Noun: flor
Gender: f Hyphenation:
Singular fflor
Plural fflores

Sample Sentences

  • Ay flores ay flores do uerde Pyno (Oh flowers, oh flowers of the green pine) [13th century, King Denis of Portugal, Ai flores, ai flores do verde pino; republished as Angelo Colocci, compiler, Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional, Italy, c. 1525–1526, cantiga 568:]

Nouns inflected like flor

perdiz, door, fror, frol, flor, chor, cruz,

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin flōrem. The phonetically regular outcome of Latin /fl-/ is reflected in the apparently unattested *chor, which can nevertheless be reconstructed from the descendants below.

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