floc

== English == === Alternative forms === flocc === Etymology === From Latin floccus (“tuft of wool”), or from French floc (“floc”), from the same Latin source. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /flɒk/ Homophone: flock === Noun === floc (countable and uncountable, plural flocs) A floccule; a soft or fluffy particle suspended in a liquid, or the fluffy mass of suspended particles so formed. (informal) A flocculant, as used in swimming pools to make particles clump together so they are trapped by the filter. === Verb === floc (third-person singular simple present flocs, present participle floccing, simple past and past participle flocced) (informal) To use a flocculant in (a swimming pool). === Anagrams === FCOL, OFLC == Catalan == === Etymology === From Latin floccus. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈflɔk] === Noun === floc m (plural flocs) tuft, lock (a bunch of feathers, hair, or grass held together at the base) flake of snow ==== Derived terms ==== flocadura === Further reading === “floc”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007 “floc”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026 “floc” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua. “floc” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962. == Dalmatian == === Alternative forms === flok === Etymology === From Latin floccus. === Noun === floc m flock, tuft flake == French == === Pronunciation === === Interjection === floc splosh; plop === Further reading === “floc”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Middle English == === Noun === floc alternative form of flok == Old English == === Etymology === From Proto-West Germanic *flōk, from Proto-Germanic *flōką, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat, broad”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /floːk/ === Noun === flōc n flatfish, flounder ==== Descendants ==== Middle English: floke, fluke, flewke English: fluke Scots: fluke, fluik === References === Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “FLÓC”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press. == Romanian == === Etymology === Inherited from Latin floccus. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ok === Noun === floc m (plural floci) floc n (plural floace) floc, floccule tuft (of hair) flock (of wool) (colloquial, vulgar) pubic hair ==== Declension ==== Masculine: Neuter: ==== Related terms ==== flocos ==== See also ==== miță smoc șuviță fulg