floresta

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

Ultimately from Early Medieval Latin foresta. Influenced by flor (“flower”).

floresta f (plural florestas)

1. forest (dense collection of trees)

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:floresta

   Meronym: árvore

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

floresta

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

• “floresta”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “floresta”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Ultimately from Early Medieval Latin foresta. Influenced by flor (“flower”).

• 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
   • 2025 December 10, Mar Agrela, “El mundo debería ser de los sensibles: «Flores para Antonio»”, in La Soga‎^[1], archived from the original on 11 December 2025:

     Clara está la riqueza del jardín. Una floresta impregnada de su talento y su sensibilidad.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• árbol

• florilegio

• “floresta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1984), “floresta”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎^[2] (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 919