flor – Spanish noun declension

Spanish noun forms of flor

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

Sample Sentences

  • Flor de harina. (Finest flour.)
  • En la flor de la vida. (In the prime of life.)
  • Cuando el pabilo de la vela no se quema bien, se forma en el extremo una excrecencia que se llama flor. El florecerse la vela es augurio de riqueza, próxima o remota. [1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 284:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-s
4. Proto-Indo-European *bʰléh₃s
5. Proto-Italic *flōs
6. Latin flōs
7. Old Spanish flor
8. Spanish flor
9. Inherited from Old Spanish flor, from Latin flōs (accusative flōrem). The retention of [ɸl] in Old Spanish (instead of a shift to /ʎ/) is unusual and perhaps reflects some form of conservative tendency. Old Spanish /h~ɸ/ became modern /f/ before a glide or liquid (fuego, fiel, fregar, fleco) and after /l/ (golfo, alfombra, alfiler). See: Latin Nouns 'flōs'.

Verbs referencing "flor"

English Nouns flor.

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