# fluor
## English
### Etymology

From Latin fluor.

### Pronunciation

* (US) IPA: /fluɔɹ/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Noun

fluor (countable and uncountable, plural fluors)
* (dated) The mineral fluorite.
    Synonym: See fluorite.
* (obsolete) A flow or flux.
* (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

## Basque
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* IPA: /fluor/, [flu.o̞r]

### Noun

fluor inan
* fluorine

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “fluor”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
* “fluor”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

## Catalan
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin fluōrem (“flowing”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [fluˈor]
* Audio (Valencia):(file)

### Noun

fluor m (uncountable)
* 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, 2025
* “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.

## Czech
### Alternative forms

* fluór

### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fluor.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈfluor]
* Hyphenation: fluor

### Noun

fluor m inan
* fluorine

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “fluor”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “fluor”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* “fluor”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

## Danish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fluːər/, [ˈfluːɐ]

### Noun

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

### Declension
#### Related terms

* fluorescens
* fluorescere
* fluorid

### Further reading

* fluor on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{da}$
* “fluor” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fluor.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfly.ɔr/, [ˈflyɥɔr]
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: flu‧or

### Noun

fluor n (uncountable)
* the chemical element fluorine (symbol: F)

#### Derived terms

* fluoresceren
* fluoride

### Further reading

* “fluor” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

## Estonian
### Pronunciation

* This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA then please add some!

### Noun

fluor (genitive fluori, partitive fluori)
* fluorine

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “fluor”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
* “fluor”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
* fluor in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

## French
### Etymology

From Latin fluor.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fly.ɔʁ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

fluor m (uncountable)
* fluorine (chemical element)

#### Derived terms

* fluorescent

### Further reading

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

## Hungarian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈfluor]
* Hyphenation: flu‧or
* Rhymes: -or

### Noun

fluor (usually uncountable, plural fluorok)
* fluorine (chemical element)

#### Derived terms

* fluorid

### Further reading

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

## Ido
### Verb

fluor
* future infinitive of fluar

## Indonesian
### Noun

fluor (plural fluor-fluor)
* fluor

## Interlingua
### Noun

fluor (uncountable)
* fluorine

## Kashubian
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Fluor.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈflu.ɔr/
* Rhymes: -uɔr
* Syllabification: flu‧or

### Noun

fluor m inan
* fluorine

### Further reading

* Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “fluor”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎

## Latin
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈflu.or/, [ˈfɫ̪uɔr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈflu.or/, [ˈfluːor]

### Noun

fluor m (genitive fluōris); third declension
* flow (act of flowing)

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Related terms

* fluo

### References

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

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Noun

fluor m or n (definite singular fluoren or fluoret)
* fluorine (chemical element, symbol F)

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

fluor m or n (definite singular fluoren or fluoret, uncountable)
* fluorine (as above)

## Occitan
### Etymology

From Latin fluor.

### Pronunciation

* This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA then please add some!

### Noun

fluor m (uncountable)
* fluorine

## 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
* seed
* seed field

#### Declension
### References

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

## Polish
### Etymology

Internationalism; compare English fluorine, French fluor, German Fluor, ultimately from Latin fluor.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈflu.ɔr/
* Audio 1:(file)
* Audio 2:(file)
* Rhymes: -uɔr
* Syllabification: flu‧or

### Noun

fluor m inan
* fluorine

#### Declension
### Further reading

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

## Romanian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fluˈor/, /flor/
* Hyphenation: flu‧or

### Noun

fluor n (uncountable)
* fluorine (chemical element)

#### Derived terms

* fluoriza
* fluorizare

### References

* fluor in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

From Latin fluorum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /flǔo̞ːr/
* Hyphenation: flu‧or

### Noun

flȕōr m (Cyrillic spelling флу̏о̄р)
* fluorine

#### Declension
### References

* “fluor”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

## Slovene
### Etymology

From Latin fluor.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /flúːɔr/

### Noun

flȗor m inan
* fluorine

#### Inflection
### Further reading

* “fluor”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Latin fluor.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfloːr/
* Audio:(file)
* Homophone: flår

### Noun

fluor n or c
* fluorine

#### Related terms

* fluorsköljning
* fluortant

### References

* fluor in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* ↑ fluor in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* fluor in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
* Svensk MeSH