hortensia
French, noun/ɔʁ.tɑ̃.sja/
hortensia is spelled H-O-R-T-E-N-S-I-A (9 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 68,150th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hortensia is a French masculine noun meaning “hydrangea” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Arbrisseau originaire du Japon, du genre Hydrangea, qui est cultivé comme plante d’agrément : il porte des…”.
What does hortensia mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinehydrangea
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Arbrisseau originaire du Japon, du genre Hydrangea, qui est cultivé comme plante d’agrément : il porte des fleurs blanches, bleues (Ph=4), mauves (Ph=6) ou roses (PH=6,5) selon la composition du sol, à l’extrémité des rameaux, en boules, en corymbes touffus.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of hortensia
- hortensias plural
- ^((h muet))\ɔʁ.tɑ̃.sja\ singular plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce hortensia?
- /ɔʁ.tɑ̃.sja/
- ^((h muet))\ɔʁ.tɑ̃.sja\
- \ɔʁ.tɑ̃.sja\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to hortensia
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is hortensia in French?
hortensia appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).