floret

• florette

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

floret (plural florets)

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

• floweret

• Lefort, forlet, lofter, torfel

From Italian fioretto.

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /floˈɾət/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /fluˈɾɛt/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /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, 2023
• “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

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