floco
Portuguese
noun
Definitions
- flake a thin chiplike layer of anything
- tuft bunch of feathers, grass or hair, etc., held together at the base
Etymology
Inherited from Latin floccus (tuft of wool, piece of wool, a wisp, flock).
Origin
Latin
floccus
Gloss
tuft of wool, piece of wool, a wisp, flock
Concept
Semantic Field
Animals
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- floc English
- floccinaucinihilipilification English
- floccus English
- floccosus Latin
- floccus Latin
- fiocco Italian
- floc French
- flocon French
- fleco Spanish, Castilian
- *bʰlok- Proto-Indo-European
- flosche Old French
- floc Catalan, Valencian
- floc Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- floccho Old High German
- flok Albanian
- *flokkō Frankish
- floc Dalmatian
- cioccà Neapolitan