flour
Middle English
/fluːr/
noun
Definitions
- A flower often representing impermanence or beauty
- A depiction or likeness of a flower.
- Success or achievement in a contest; victoriousness.
- A virtue or benefit; something desirable.
- That which is unparalleled; the top or most superior.
- flour i.e. the best part of a grain
- A powder; especially one which is white like flour.
- An exemplar or example of a trait or behaviour.
- A woman's menstruation/period.
- (rare) Virginhood; sexual abstinence.
Etymology
Borrowed from flur derived from Latin flōrem.
Origin
Latin
flōrem
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Passionflower English
- Redflower English
- aflower English
- basketflower English
- beflower English
- bellflower English
- blanketflower English
- bunchflower English
- coneflower English
- cornflower English
- crowflower English
- cuckooflower English
- dayflower English
- elderflower English
- enflower English
- fanflower English
- fennelflower English
- floury English
- flower English
- flower fly English
- flowerage English
- flowerbed English
- flowerer English
- flowerest English
- floweret English
- flowereth English
- flowerette English
- flowerful English
- flowerhead English
- flowerhorn English
- flowerkind English
- flowerless English
- flowerlike English
- flowerly English
- flowerness English
- flowerpecker English
- flowerpot English
- flowery English
- foamflower English
- ghostflower English
- globeflower English
- handflower English
- mayflower English
- mistflower English
- monkeyflower English
- moonflower English
- nanoflower English
- noonflower English
- paperflower English
- polyflower English
- preflower English
- pseudoflower English
- reflower English
- satinflower English
- shellflower English
- skyflower English
- snailflower English
- spoonflower English
- starflower English
- strawflower English
- sulphurflower English
- sunflower English
- twinflower English
- unflower English
- wallflower English
- waxflower English
- wildflower English
- windflower English
- flōrem Latin
- fiore Italian
- *bʰleh₃- Proto-Indo-European
- floury Middle English
- flouryng Middle English
- lilie Middle English
- lilie flour Middle English
- plúr Irish
- flor Old French
- flur Old French
- flor Catalan, Valencian
- floare Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- flùr Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- *chor Old Portuguese
- flor Old Portuguese
- *flōs Proto-Italic
- flor Asturian
- flour Scots
- flor Old Occitan
- flor Old Spanish
- ciuri Sicilian
- plaua Tok Pisin
- flur xno
- frore Sardinian
- sciore Neapolitan
- flor Aragonese
- fjór Romagnol