floco

• fleque, freque, froco

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese froco (“tuft”), semi-learned borrowing from Latin floccus (“tuft of wool”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈflɔkʊ/

floco m (plural flocos)

1. tassel
2. flake (a thin chiplike layer of anything)

   Synonyms: foula (“dust”), folerpa (“snowflake”)

• floco de neve
• flocos de millo

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “froco”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “froc”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “floco”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “floco”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “floco”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Learned borrowing from Latin floccus (“tuft of wool”). Doublet of froco.

• Rhymes: -ɔku
• Hyphenation: flo‧co

floco m (plural flocos)

1. flake (a thin chiplike layer of anything)

   Synonyms: folheca (“snowflake”), folipa (“snowflake”)

   sorvete de flocos ― chocolate chip ice cream (literally, “flake ice cream”)

2. tuft (bunch of feathers, grass or hair, etc., held together at the base)

   Synonym: tufo

• floco de neve
• flocos de milho
• flocoso