floreal
Portuguese, noun
floreal is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “Floréal (the eighth month of the French Republican Calendar, from April 20 or 21 to May 19 or 20)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Floreal is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal)…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “segundo mês da primavera do Calendário Revolucionário Francês”.
What does floreal mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineFloréal (the eighth month of the French Republican Calendar, from April 20 or 21 to May 19 or 20)
adjective
- 1
femininemasculinesynonym of floral
noun
- 1
masculinepre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of floreal; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and may occur as a sporadic misspelling
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. segundo mês da primavera do Calendário Revolucionário Francês
noun: 1. município brasileiro do estado de São Paulo
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of floreal
- Floreais plural
- floreais plural
- Floreal alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is floreal in Portuguese?
floreal appears about once in every 21 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).