fluor

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

English

Noun

fluor (countable and uncountable, plural fluors)

1. Fluorite (symbol: F).

Synonyms

• See fluorite.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• fluorine
• fluorite

• fluoroid
• fluorspar

Related terms

Related terms

• fluoranthene
• fluorescence

• fluorophor, fluorophore
• fluorosis

See also

• fluor-

Anagrams

• flour, four L, furol, orful, rufol

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Catalan

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [fluˈor]

Noun

fluor m (uncountable)

1. fluorine

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, 2024
• “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)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfluor]

Noun

1. fluorine

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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

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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:

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• 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

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fly.ɔʁ/

• Audio:

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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

Noun

fluor (plural fluorok)

1. fluorine (symbol: F)

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

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Ido

Verb

(deprecated template usage) 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”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlew- (“to swell, flow”)..

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈflu.or/, [ˈfɫ̪uɔr]
• (modern Italianate 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

Noun

fluor m (uncountable)

1. fluorine

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Polish

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈflu.ɔr/

• Audio:

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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

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Romanian

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

fluor n (uncountable)

1. fluorine (chemical element)

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)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flúːɔr/

Noun

flȗor m inan

1. fluorine

Inflection

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

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

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

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

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Swedish

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
	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