floresta

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

floresta

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

floresta f (plural florestas)

1. forest (dense collection of trees)

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:floresta

   Meronym: árvore

• florestal

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

floresta

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

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

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

floresta f (plural florestas)

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

   Synonyms: bosque, selva, jungla

2. collection or gathering of pleasant things

• árbol

• florilegio

• “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