floral

English

Etymology

From French floral, from Latin flōrālis, from flōs (“flower”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈflɔɹəl/
• IPA^(key): /ˈflɔːɹəl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɔːɹəl
• Rhymes: -ɒɹəl

Adjective

floral (comparative more floral, superlative most floral)

1. Of, pertaining to, or connected with flowers.
2. Portraying flowers, especially in a stylized way.

   Really, I like the floral pattern on this Chinese vase.

Derived terms

• bifloral
• extrafloral
• florality
• floralize
• florally
• floralness
• interfloral
• intrafloral
• macrofloral
• microfloral
• monofloral
• multifloral
• mycofloral
• nonfloral
• polyfloral
• subfloral
• trifloral
• unfloral

 

Related terms

• flora
• florate

 

Translations

of or pertaining to flowers

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Asturian: floral
• Bulgarian: цветен (bg) (cveten)
• Catalan: floral
• Corsican: fiorale, fiurale, fiureale, flurale
• Czech: please add this translation if you can
• Esperanto: flora
• Finnish: kukka-
• French: floral (fr)
• Galician: floral
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: floral (de)
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• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Irish: bláthach
• Italian: floreale (it)
• Latvian: puķains
• Piedmontese: fioral
• Polish: kwiatowy (pl)
• Portuguese: floral (pt)
• Romanian: floral (ro)
• Russian: цвето́чный (ru) (cvetóčnyj)
• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: floral (es)
• Yiddish: please add this translation if you can

portraying flowers

• Finnish: kukkais-, kukka-
• German: floral (de)
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• Hungarian: virágmintás (hu)
• Latvian: puķains
• Romanian: floral (ro)

Noun

floral (plural florals)

1. A design involving flowers
   • 2007 October 11, Marianne Rohrlich, “Grandma’s Wallpaper Gets Funky”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     FUNKY, bold and bright, many new wallpapers offer a modern twist on fussy old damasks and florals.

2. A perfume redolent of flowers

Anagrams

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Asturian

Adjective

floral (epicene, plural florales)

1. floral (of or pertaining to flowers)

Related terms

• flor

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [fluˈɾal]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [floˈɾal]

Adjective

floral m or f (masculine and feminine plural florals)

1. floral

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flɔ.ʁal/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

floral (feminine florale, masculine plural floraux, feminine plural florales)

1. floral

Further reading

• “floral”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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German

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -aːl

Adjective

floral (not comparable)

1. floral

Further reading

• “floral” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “floral” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon

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Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French floral.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /floʁal/

Adjective

floral

1. floral

Related terms

• fler
• fleri
• fleris

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /floˈɾaw/ [floˈɾaʊ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /fluˈɾal/ [fluˈɾaɫ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /fluˈɾal/ [fluˈɾaɫ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /fluˈɾa.li/

• Hyphenation: flo‧ral
• Rhymes: -al, -aw

Adjective

1. floral

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Romanian

Etymology

From French floral

Adjective

floral m or n (feminine singular florală, masculine plural florali, feminine and neuter plural florale)

1. floral

Declension

Declension of floral

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	floral		florală	florali	florale
	definite	floralul		florala	floralii	floralele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	floral		florale	florali	florale
	definite	floralului		floralei	floralilor	floralelor

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin flōrālis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /floˈɾal/ [floˈɾal]

Adjective

floral m or f (masculine and feminine plural florales)

1. (relational) flower; floral (of or relating to the flower or flowers)

Related terms

• flor
• florear
• florecer
• florería
• florero
• florido
• florista
• floristería

 

Further reading

• “floral”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28