floret

• florette

From Old French florete, diminutive of flor (“flower”). Doublet of fleuret and floweret.

• IPA^(key): /fləˈɹɛt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛt

floret (plural florets)

1. A small flower, especially one of a cluster in a composite flower.

• floweret

• Lefort, forlet, lofter, torfel

Borrowed from Italian fioretto.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [fluˈɾɛt]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [floˈɾət]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [floˈɾet]

floret m (plural florets)

1. (fencing) foil

• “floret” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “floret”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “floret” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “floret” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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floret f (plural floretten, diminutive floretje n)

1. (fencing) foil

• “floret” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

floret (first-person possessive floretku, second-person possessive floretmu, third-person possessive floretnya)

1. foil

Borrowed from German Florett.

• IPA^(key): /ˈflɔ.rɛt/
• Rhymes: -ɔrɛt
• Syllabification: flo‧ret

floret m inan

1. (fencing) foil

• “floret”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

flōret

1. third-person singular present active indicative of flōreō

Borrowed from German Florett, from French fleuret, from Italian fioretto.

• IPA^(key): /ˈflɔ.rɛt/
• Rhymes: -ɔrɛt
• Syllabification: flo‧ret

floret m inan

1. (fencing) foil

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