flo

Possibly from Breton floc'h (“squire”) (compare with Cornish flogh (“child”)), or from English fellow.

• IPA^(key): /flo/

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flo m (plural flos, feminine floune)

1. (Quebec) boy
   • 2002, Jean-François Pauzé, “Mon chum Rémi”, in Break Syndical:

     Mais rent' donc à maison / T'as un flo qui t'adore / Ça c't'une vraie bonne raison / pour pas passer d'l'aut' bord

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

From Proto-Italic *flāō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to blow”).^[1] Cognate with English blow and more distantly with Old Armenian բեղուն (bełun, “fertile”) (< *bʰel-).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfɫoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈflɔː]

flō (present infinitive flāre, perfect active flāvī, supine flātum); first conjugation

1. to breathe, blow

• “flo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “flo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “flo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the east winds are blowing: venti ab ortu solis flant
    

• fla, fleo, vlo

From Old English flā, from flān reanalysed as a plural, from Proto-West Germanic *flain, from Proto-Germanic *flainaz. Compare flon.

• IPA^(key): /flɔː/
• Rhymes: -ɔː

flo (plural flon or floon)

1. An arrow, especially one used with a long bow (projectile weapon emitted from a bow)
2. (figurative) Anything felt to have a (metaphorically) piercing effect.

• English: flo

• “flō, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 4 May 2018.

Inherited from Danish flod, from Old Norse flóð, from Proto-Germanic *flōduz. Doublet of flod (“flood, river”). The last-mentioned senses, perhaps due to their biblical and literary associations, predominantly have a more spelling-based pronunciation in /d/ not common for the sense “high tide”. This split came to be reflected in the spelling flo, which was standardized already in 1907.

• IPA^(key): /fluː/, [fluʷː]
• Homophone: flod (one pronunciation)

flo f or m (definite singular floa or floen, indefinite plural floer, definite plural floene)

1. high tide

   Synonym: høyvann (and variants)

   Antonyms: fjære, ebbe, lavvann (and variants)

• flod (Nynorsk)

• “flo” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /fluː/

From Old Norse fló (“surface, layer”).

3=floer
4=floene
dp2=flørne
ip2=flør

flo f (plural floa)

1. a horizontal layer

• → English: floe

From Old Norse flóð f or n. Akin to English flood. Doublet of flod.

3=floer
4=floene
dp2=flørne
ip2=flør

flo f (plural floa)

1. a rain shower

1984c=floer, flør
1984d=floene, flørne

flo

1. (non-standard since 1938) past tense of flå

• “flo” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• fol

flo m (plural flos)

1. (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) alternative form of flad (“breath (of air)”)

• (Sutsilvan) trer flo
• (Surmiran) trer igl flo

From French fluor, from Latin fluor.

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [flɔ˧˧], [fəː˨˩ lɔ˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [flɔ˧˧], [fəː˦˩ lɔ˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [flɔ˧˧], [fəː˨˩ lɔ˧˧]
• Phonetic spelling: phlo, phờ lo

flo

1. fluorine