floral

English

Etymology

From French floral, from Latin flōrālis, from flōs (“flower”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈfloɹəl/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈflɔːɹəl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɔːɹəl
• Rhymes: -ɒɹəl

Adjective

floral (comparative more floral, superlative most floral)

1. Of, pertaining to, or connected with flowers.

   floral arrangement

   floral tribute

2. Portraying flowers, especially in a stylized way.

   floral motif

   Really, I like the floral pattern on this Chinese vase.

Derived terms

• apicifloral
• bifloral
• extrafloral
• floral clock
• floral envelope
• floral formula
• florality
• floralize
• floral larceny
• florally
• floralness
• Floral Park
• floralturbation
• floral white
• interfloral
• intrafloral
• labiatifloral
• macrofloral
• microfloral
• monofloral
• multifloral
• mycofloral
• nonfloral
• palaeofloral
• paleofloral
• palynofloral
• polyfloral
• prefloral
• subfloral
• trifloral
• unfloral
• unifloral

Related terms

• flora
• florate

Translations

of or pertaining to flowers

• Albanian: lulor m
• Amharic: አበባማ (ʾäbäbama)
• Arabic: زَهْرِيّ (zahriyy)
• Armenian: ծաղկային (hy) (caġkayin)
• Asturian: floral
• Belarusian: кве́ткавы (kvjétkavy), кве́тачны (kvjétačny)
• Bulgarian: цве́тен (bg) (cvéten)
• Catalan: floral
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 花的 (zh) (huā de), 花卉的 (zh) (huāhuì de)

• Corsican: fiorale, fiurale, fiureale, flurale
• Czech: květinový (cs)
• Esperanto: flora
• Finnish: kukka- (fi)
• French: floral (fr)
• Friulian: floreâl
• Galician: floral
• Georgian: ყვავილისა (q̇vavilisa), საყვავილე (saq̇vavile)
• German: floral (de), Blumen- (de)
• Greek: άνθινος (el) (ánthinos), ανθικός (el) (anthikós)

  Ancient Greek: ἀνθικός (anthikós), ἄνθινος (ánthinos)

• Hungarian: virágos (hu)
• Irish: bláthach
• Italian: floreale (it)
• Japanese: 花の (ja) (はなの, hana no)
• Korean: 꽃의 (ko) (kkoch-ui)
• Latin: flōrālis
• Latvian: puķains (lv)
• Macedonian: цветен (cveten)
• Mauritian Creole: floral
• Piedmontese: fioral
• Polish: kwiatowy (pl)
• Portuguese: floral (pt)
• Romanian: floral (ro)
• Russian: цвето́чный (ru) (cvetóčnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: цвѐтнӣ, цвјѐтнӣ

  Latin: cvètnī, cvjètnī (sh)

• Slovak: kvetinový
• Slovene: cvetličen
• Spanish: floral (es)
• Swedish: blom- (sv), blomster- (sv)
• Ukrainian: квіткови́й (kvitkovýj), кві́тчаний (kvítčanyj) (rare)
• Yiddish: בלומיק (blumik)

portraying flowers

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 花卉的 (zh) (huāhuì de)

• Finnish: kukkais- (fi), kukka- (fi)
• German: floral (de)
• Hungarian: virágmintás (hu)
• Latvian: puķains (lv)
• Romanian: floral (ro)
• Russian: цвето́чный (ru) (cvetóčnyj)

Noun

floral (plural florals)

1. A design involving flowers
   • 2007 October 11, Marianne Rohrlich, “Grandma’s Wallpaper Gets Funky”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     FUNKY, bold and bright, many new wallpapers offer a modern twist on fussy old damasks and florals.

2. A perfume redolent of flowers

Anagrams

• all for, for all

Asturian

Adjective

floral (epicene, plural florales)

1. floral (of or pertaining to flowers)

Related terms

• flor

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Central) [fluˈɾal]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia, Northwestern) [floˈɾal]

Adjective

floral m or f (masculine and feminine plural florals)

1. floral

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin flōrālis, from flōs (“flower”) (whence fleur).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flɔ.ʁal/

• Audio (Switzerland (Valais)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

floral (feminine florale, masculine plural floraux, feminine plural florales)

1. floral

   des motifs floraux ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Further reading

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

German

Pronunciation

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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• Rhymes: -aːl

Adjective

floral (strong nominative masculine singular floraler, not comparable)

1. floral

Declension

Positive forms of floral (uncomparable)

number & gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter
predicative		er ist floral	sie ist floral	es ist floral	sie sind floral
strong declension (without article)	nominative	floraler	florale	florales	florale
	genitive	floralen	floraler	floralen	floraler
	dative	floralem	floraler	floralem	floralen
	accusative	floralen	florale	florales	florale
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	der florale	die florale	das florale	die floralen
	genitive	des floralen	der floralen	des floralen	der floralen
	dative	dem floralen	der floralen	dem floralen	den floralen
	accusative	den floralen	die florale	das florale	die floralen
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	ein floraler	eine florale	ein florales	(keine) floralen
	genitive	eines floralen	einer floralen	eines floralen	(keiner) floralen
	dative	einem floralen	einer floralen	einem floralen	(keinen) floralen
	accusative	einen floralen	eine florale	ein florales	(keine) floralen

Further reading

• “floral”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[2] (in German)
• “floral” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French floral.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /floɰal/

Adjective

floral

1. floral

Related terms

• fler
• fleri
• fleris

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin flōrālis, from flōs (“flower”). By surface analysis, flor +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /floˈɾaw/ [floˈɾaʊ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /fluˈɾal/ [fluˈɾaɫ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /fluˈɾal/ [fluˈɾaɫ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /fluˈɾa.li/

• Rhymes: -al, -aw
• Hyphenation: flo‧ral

Adjective

floral m or f (plural florais, not comparable)

1. floral

   Um vestido floral. ― A floral dress.

Further reading

• “floral”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “floral”, in Dicionário Infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “floral”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French floral.

Adjective

floral m or n (feminine singular florală, masculine plural florali, feminine/neuter plural florale)

1. floral

Declension

Declension of floral

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	floral		florală	florali	florale
	definite	floralul		florala	floralii	floralele
genitive- dative	indefinite	floral		florale	florali	florale
	definite	floralului		floralei	floralilor	floralelor

Spanish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin flōrālis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /floˈɾal/ [floˈɾal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: flo‧ral

Adjective

floral m or f (masculine and feminine plural florales)

1. (relational) flower; floral (of or relating to the flower or flowers)

Derived terms

• arreglo floral

Related terms

• flor
• florear
• florecer
• florería
• florero
• florido
• florista
• floristería

Further reading

• “floral”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025