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/, /floˈɹɛt/

• 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

Derived terms

• floretless
• ray floret
• semifloret

Translations

small flower

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

Anagrams

• Lefort, forlet, lofter, torfel

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian fioretto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [fluˈɾe̞t]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [floˈɾət]
• IPA^(key): (Central) [fluˈɾɛt]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [floˈɾet]

Noun

floret m (plural florets)

1. (fencing) foil

Further reading

• “floret”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “floret”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “floret” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “floret”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

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

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈflorɛt/ [ˈflo.rɛt̪̚]
• Rhymes: -orɛt
• Syllabification: flo‧ret

Noun

floret (plural floret-floret)

1. (fencing) foil sword

Kashubian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Florett.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈflɔ.rɛt/
• Rhymes: -ɔrɛt
• 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

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃-

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *bʰléh₃s

Proto-Italic *flōs

Latin flōrem

Italian fiore

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Italic *-tosder.?

Late Latin -ittus

Italian -etto

Italian fioretto

French fleuret

German Florettbor.

Polish floret

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^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “floret”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)