Flour

Morpheme

Flour

Type

free base

Denotation

finest portion of ground grain

Etymology

Modern English flower; Middle English flour, flur, flor, floer, floyer, flowre; Anglo-Norman flur; Old French flor; Latin flōrem, from flōs

Evidence

beanflour, beflour, cornflour, flour, floured, flouring, flourless, flourlike, flourman, flourmill, flours, floursack, floury, nonflour, reflour, unfloured

Notes

flour, flor, fleur, and flower are doublets
homophone of Flower

See Also

Anth, Flower, Flor(e) [Flore, Flor], Fleur