fluor

fluor

See also: fluor-, Fluor, flúor, and fluór

English

Etymology

From Latin fluor.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /fluɔɹ/

Noun

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

Derived terms

• fluor albus
• fluorine
• fluorite
• fluoroid
• fluorspar

Related terms

• fluoranthene
• fluorescence
• fluorophor, fluorophore
• fluorosis

See also

• fluor-

Anagrams

• flour, four L, furol, orful, rufol

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Basque

Chemical element
F
Previous: oxigeno (O)
Next: neon (Ne)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fluor/, [flu.o̞r]

Noun

fluor inan

1. fluorine

Declension

Declension of fluor (inanimate, singular only, ending in -r)
	indefinite	singular	plural
absolutive	fluor	fluorra	—
ergative	—	fluorrak	—
dative	—	fluorrari	—
genitive	—	fluorraren	—
comitative	—	fluorrarekin	—
causative	—	fluorrarengatik	—
benefactive	—	fluorrarentzat	—
instrumental	fluorrez	fluorraz	—
inessive	—	fluorrean	—
locative	—	—	—
allative	—	—	—
terminative	—	—	—
directive	—	—	—
destinative	—	—	—
ablative	—	—	—
partitive	fluorrik	—	—
prolative	fluortzat	—	—

Further reading

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

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Catalan

Chemical element
F
Previous: oxigen (O)
Next: neó (Ne)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin fluor (“flowing”).

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Valencian)

  (file)

Noun

fluor m (uncountable)

1. fluorine

Derived terms

• fluorar
• fluorur

Further reading

• “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.

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Czech

Chemical element
F
Previous: kyslík (O)
Next: neon (Ne)

Alternative forms

• fluór

Etymology

From Latin fluor.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

fluor m inan

1. fluorine

Declension

Declension of fluor

	singular	plural
nominative	fluor	fluory
genitive	fluoru	fluorů
dative	fluoru	fluorům
accusative	fluor	fluory
vocative	fluore	fluory
locative	fluoru	fluorech
instrumental	fluorem	fluory

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Danish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fluːər/, [ˈfluːɐ]

Noun

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

1. fluorine (symbol F)

Related terms

• fluorescens
• fluorescere
• fluorid

Further reading

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

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Dutch

Chemical element
F
Previous: zuurstof (O)
Next: neon (Ne)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fluor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfly.ɔr/, [ˈflyɥɔr]

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: flu‧or

Noun

fluor n (uncountable)

1. the chemical element fluorine (symbol: F)

Derived terms

• fluoresceren
• fluoride

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Estonian

Chemical element
F
Previous: hapnik (O)
Next: neoon (Ne)

Noun

fluor (genitive fluori, partitive fluori)

1. fluorine

Declension

Declension of fluor (type riik)

	singular	plural
nominative	fluor	fluorid
genitive	fluori	fluoride
partitive	fluori	fluore / fluorisid
illative	fluori / fluorisse	fluoridesse / fluoresse
inessive	fluoris	fluorides / fluores
elative	fluorist	fluoridest / fluorest
allative	fluorile	fluoridele / fluorele
adessive	fluoril	fluoridel / fluorel
ablative	fluorilt	fluoridelt / fluorelt
translative	fluoriks	fluorideks / fluoreks
terminative	fluorini	fluorideni
essive	fluorina	fluoridena
abessive	fluorita	fluorideta
comitative	fluoriga	fluoridega

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French

Etymology

From Latin fluor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fly.ɔʁ/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

fluor m (uncountable)

1. fluorine (chemical element)

Derived terms

• fluorescent

Further reading

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

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Hungarian

Chemical element
F
Previous: oxigén (O)
Next: neon (Ne)

Pronunciation

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

Noun

fluor (usually uncountable, plural fluorok)

1. fluorine (chemical element)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	fluor	fluorok
accusative	fluort	fluorokat
dative	fluornak	fluoroknak
instrumental	fluorral	fluorokkal
causal-final	fluorért	fluorokért
translative	fluorrá	fluorokká
terminative	fluorig	fluorokig
essive-formal	fluorként	fluorokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	fluorban	fluorokban
superessive	fluoron	fluorokon
adessive	fluornál	fluoroknál
illative	fluorba	fluorokba
sublative	fluorra	fluorokra
allative	fluorhoz	fluorokhoz
elative	fluorból	fluorokból
delative	fluorról	fluorokról
ablative	fluortól	fluoroktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	fluoré	fluoroké
non-attributive possessive - plural	fluoréi	fluorokéi

Possessive forms of fluor
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	fluorom	fluoraim
2nd person sing.	fluorod	fluoraid
3rd person sing.	fluora	fluorai
1st person plural	fluorunk	fluoraink
2nd person plural	fluorotok	fluoraitok
3rd person plural	fluoruk	fluoraik

Further reading

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

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Ido

Verb

fluor

1. future infinitive of fluar

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Interlingua

Noun

fluor (uncountable)

1. fluorine

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Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

fluor m (genitive fluōris); third declension

1. flow (act of flowing)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fluor	fluōrēs
Genitive	fluōris	fluōrum
Dative	fluōrī	fluōribus
Accusative	fluōrem	fluōrēs
Ablative	fluōre	fluōribus
Vocative	fluor	fluōrēs

Related terms

• fluo

References

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

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

fluor m or n (definite singular fluoren or fluoret)

1. fluorine (chemical element, symbol F)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

fluor m or n (definite singular fluoren or fluoret)

1. fluorine (as above)

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Occitan

Etymology

From Latin fluor.

Noun

fluor m (uncountable)

1. fluorine

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Old High German

Etymology

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

Noun

fluor m

1. seed
2. seed field

Declension

Declension of fluor (masculine a-stem)

case	singular	plural
nominative	fluor	fluora
accusative	fluor	fluora
genitive	fluores	fluoro
dative	fluore	fluorum
instrumental	fluoru	—

References

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

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Polish

Chemical element
F
Previous: tlen (O)
Next: neon (Ne)

Etymology

From Latin fluor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈflu.ɔr/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -uɔr
• Syllabification: flu‧or

Noun

fluor m inan

1. fluorine

Declension

Declension of fluor

	singular
nominative	fluor
genitive	fluoru
dative	fluorowi
accusative	fluor
instrumental	fluorem
locative	fluorze
vocative	fluorze

Further reading

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

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Romanian

Chemical element
F
Previous: oxigen (O)
Next: neon (Ne)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

fluor n (uncountable)

1. fluorine (chemical element)

Declension

declension of fluor (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) fluor	fluorul
genitive/dative	(unui) fluor	fluorului
vocative	fluorule

Derived terms

• fluoriza
• fluorizare

References

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

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Serbo-Croatian

Chemical element
F
Previous: kiseonik, kìsīk (O)
Next: nèōn (Ne)

Etymology

From Latin fluorum.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

flȕōr m (Cyrillic spelling флу̏о̄р)

1. fluorine

Declension

Declension of fluor

	singular	plural
nominative	flȕōr	fluori
genitive	flȕōra	fluora
dative	fluoru	fluorima
accusative	fluor	fluore
vocative	fluore	fluori
locative	fluoru	fluorima
instrumental	fluorom	fluorima

References

• “fluor” in Hrvatski jezični portal

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Slovene

Chemical element
F
Previous: kisík (O)
Next: néon (Ne)

Etymology

From Latin fluor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flúːɔr/

Noun

flȗor m inan

1. fluorine

Inflection

Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nominative	flúor
genitive	flúora
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	flúor
genitive (rodȋlnik)	—
dative (dajȃlnik)	—
accusative (tožȋlnik)	—
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	flúoru
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	flúorom

Masculine inan., soft o-stem
nominative	flúor
genitive	flúorja
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	flúor
genitive (rodȋlnik)	—
dative (dajȃlnik)	—
accusative (tožȋlnik)	—
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	flúorju
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	flúorjem

Further reading

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

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Swedish

Chemical element
F
Previous: syre (O)
Next: neon (Ne)

Etymology

From Latin fluor.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

fluor n or c

1. fluorine

Declension

Declension of fluor
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	fluor	fluoret	—	—
Genitive	fluors	fluorets	—	—

Declension of fluor [1]
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	fluor	fluoren	—	—
Genitive	fluors	fluorens	—	—

Declension of fluor
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	fluor	fluorn	—	—
Genitive	fluors	fluorns	—	—

Related terms

• fluorsköljning
• fluortant

References

1. fluor in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)