flanela

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French flanelle, from a diminutive of Old French flaine, floene (“coarse wool”), from Gaulish *wlanā (“wool”), from Proto-Celtic *wlanā (“wool”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂. Cognate to Portuguese lã, velo, English wool, Welsh gwlân.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /fla.ˈnɛ.la/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /flɐ.ˈnɛ.lɐ/
• Hyphenation: fla‧ne‧la

Noun

flanela f (uncountable)

1. flannel

Quotations

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:flanela.

Related terms

• flanelinha