floresta

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /floˈɾɛs.tɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /floˈɾɛs.tɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /floˈɾɛʃ.tɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /floˈɾɛs.ta/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /fluˈɾɛʃ.tɐ/

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɛstɐ, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -ɛʃtɐ
• Hyphenation: flo‧res‧ta

Etymology 1

floresta

From Old Galician-Portuguese foresta, furesta (“forest”) (influenced by flor (“flower”)), from Late Latin foresta (“open wood”).

Noun

floresta f (plural florestas)

1. forest (dense collection of trees)

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:floresta

   Meronym: árvore

Derived terms

• floresta primária
• floresta primitiva
• floresta temperada
• floresta tropical
• floresta virgem

 

Related terms

• florestal

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

floresta

1. inflection of florestar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish foresta (subsequently influenced by flor (“flower”)), borrowed from Old French forest. Doublet of foresta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /floˈɾesta/ [floˈɾes.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -esta
• Syllabification: flo‧res‧ta

Noun

floresta f (plural florestas)

1. woodland, greenwood, dell, forest (dense collection of trees)

   Synonyms: bosque, selva, jungla

2. collection or gathering of pleasant things

Meronyms

• árbol

Related terms

• deforestación
• deforestar
• foresta
• forestal
• forestar

 

See also

• florilegio

Further reading

• “floresta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
• Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “floresta”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 919