fluor

From Latin fluor.

• (US) IPA^(key): /fluɔɹ/

fluor (countable and uncountable, plural fluors)

1. (dated) The mineral fluorite.

   Synonym: See fluorite.

2. (obsolete) A flow or flux.
3. (obsolete, in the plural) Menstrual periods.

   Synonym: flowers

• fluor albus
• fluorine
• fluorite
• fluoroid
• fluorspar

• fluoranthene
• fluorescence
• fluorophor, fluorophore
• fluorosis

• fluor-

• flour, four L, furol, orful, rufol

• IPA^(key): /fluor/, [flu.o̞r]

fluor inan

1. fluorine

• "fluor" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus
• “fluor” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], euskaltzaindia.eus

Learned borrowing from Latin fluor (“flowing”).

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /fluˈo/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /fluˈor/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /fluˈoɾ/

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fluor m (uncountable)

1. fluorine

• fluorar
• fluorur

• “fluor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “fluor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “fluor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “fluor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• fluór

Borrowed from Latin fluor.

• IPA^(key): [ˈfluor]
• Hyphenation: fluor

fluor m inan

1. fluorine

From Medieval Latin fluor, from Latin fluere (“to flow”).

• IPA^(key): /fluːər/, [ˈfluːɐ]

fluor n or c (singular definite fluoret or fluoren, not used in plural form)

1. fluorine (symbol F)

• fluorescens
• fluorescere
• fluorid

• fluor on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da
• “fluor” in Den Danske Ordbog

Borrowed from Latin fluor.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfly.ɔr/, [ˈflyɥɔr]

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• Hyphenation: flu‧or

fluor n (uncountable)

1. the chemical element fluorine (symbol: F)

• fluoresceren
• fluoride

fluor (genitive fluori, partitive fluori)

1. fluorine

From Latin fluor.

• IPA^(key): /fly.ɔʁ/

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fluor m (uncountable)

1. fluorine (chemical element)

• fluorescent

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈfluor]
• Hyphenation: flu‧or
• Rhymes: -or

fluor (usually uncountable, plural fluorok)

1. fluorine (chemical element)

• fluor in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

fluor

1. future infinitive of fluar

fluor (first-person possessive fluorku, second-person possessive fluormu, third-person possessive fluornya)

1. fluor

fluor (uncountable)

1. fluorine

From fluō (“I flow”) +‎ -or, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlew- (“to swell, flow”)..

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈflu.or/, [ˈfɫ̪uɔr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈflu.or/, [ˈfluːor]

fluor m (genitive fluōris); third declension

1. flow (act of flowing)

Third-declension noun.

• fluo

• “fluor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

fluor m or n (definite singular fluoren or fluoret)

1. fluorine (chemical element, symbol F)

fluor m or n (definite singular fluoren or fluoret)

1. fluorine (as above)

From Latin fluor.

fluor m (uncountable)

1. fluorine

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “not cognate with floor, it seems?”)

fluor m

1. seed
2. seed field

1. Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014

From Latin fluor.

• IPA^(key): /ˈflu.ɔr/

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• Rhymes: -uɔr
• Syllabification: flu‧or

fluor m inan

1. fluorine

• fluor in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• fluor in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French fluor, from Latin fluor (“flow”).

• IPA^(key): /fluˈor/, /flor/
• Hyphenation: flu‧or

fluor n (uncountable)

1. fluorine (chemical element)

• fluoriza
• fluorizare

• fluor in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

From Latin fluorum.

• IPA^(key): /flǔo̞ːr/
• Hyphenation: flu‧or

flȕōr m (Cyrillic spelling флу̏о̄р)

1. fluorine

• “fluor” in Hrvatski jezični portal

From Latin fluor.

• IPA^(key): /flúːɔr/

flȗor m inan

1. fluorine

• “fluor”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

From Latin fluor.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfloːr/
• Homophone: flår

fluor n or c

1. fluorine

• fluorsköljning
• fluortant