floces

== Latin == === Alternative forms === floccēs === Etymology === From a Proto-Indo-European root related to fracēs (“dregs of oil”) and faex (“sediment, dregs”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈfɫɔ.keːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈflɔː.t͡ʃes] === Noun === flocēs f pl (genitive flocum); third declension lees, dregs of wine ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun, plural only. === References === “floces”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press