Catalan–English dictionary

filogènia

(systematics) The evolutionary history of groups of organisms, such as species or clades.

filòleg

A person who engages in philology (historical linguistics), especially as a profession; a collector of words and their etymologies.

filòloga

A person who engages in philology (historical linguistics), especially as a profession; a collector of words and their etymologies.

filologia

(philosophy, rare) Love and study of learning and literature, broadly speaking.

filològic

(linguistics) Pertaining to historical linguistics.

Filomena

A en given name.

filosofar

To ponder or reason out philosophically.

filosòfic

Of, or pertaining to, philosophy.

filosòficament

In a philosophical manner.

filtració

A document, review or comment that discloses the ending or some key surprise or twist in a story, or the internal rules controlling the behaviour of a video game, etc. [from 1970s]

filtrar

(transitive) To sort, sift, or isolate.

fílum

(taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below kingdom and above class; also called a divisio or a division, especially in describing plants; a taxon at that rank

final

(by extension, often with "the") Death.

finalista

A university student during the period of sitting their final examinations (whether or not in their final year of study).

finalitzar

(transitive) To put an end to; to destroy.

finalment

In the end; at some later time, especially after a long time, a series of problems, struggles, delays or setbacks.

finament

So as to produce a fine texture; into small, thin, or delicate pieces.

finançament

Money provided as funds.

finançar

(transitive) To manage financially; be financier for; provide or obtain funding for a transaction or undertaking.

financer

Related to finances.

financera

A person who, as a profession, profits from large financial transactions.

financerament

In terms of finance or money.

finances

The science of management of money and other assets.

finca

A piece of real estate, such as a parcel of land.

finès

(dated) Of the hypothetical Finno-Volgaic subgrouping of the Uralic languages that includes the Baltic-Finnic, Sami, Mordvinic and Mari languages.

finestró

(usually, in the plural) Protective panels, usually wooden, placed over windows to block out the light.

fingiment

Assuming an appearance which is feigned, or not true.

fingir

To make a false show or pretence of; to counterfeit or simulate.

finir

(transitive) To put an end to; to destroy.

finit

Having an end or limit; (of a quantity) constrained by bounds; (of a set) whose number of elements is a natural number.

finlandès

A national of Finland.

finlandesa

A national of Finland.

Finlàndia

A Nordic country having borders with Sweden, Norway and Russia in Europe. Official name: Republic of Finland.

fins

(without an object) Up to the time that the foods or other things available to sell, or tasks which need to be completed, run out.

fins ara

(formal, temporal) Before now, until now, up to the present time; from the beginning to this point.

fins aviat

(slang) See you later; goodbye.

fins i tot

In reality; implying an extreme example in the case mentioned, as compared to the implied reality.

fins i tot si

Regardless of whether; irrespective of (something happening or being the case).

finta

(often, military) A movement made to confuse an opponent; a dummy.

fiola

A glass or plastic vessel or bottle, especially a small tube-shaped bottle used to store medicine, perfume or other chemicals.

fiord

A long, narrow, deep inlet between cliffs.

fira

An event for public entertainment and trade, a market.

fira de mostres

An event for professionals in a trade to learn of new products and do business, a trade fair.

firmament

(usually, uncountable, literary, poetic, also, figuratively) The vault of the heavens, where the clouds, sun, moon, and stars can be seen; the heavens, the sky.

firmar

(transitive) To validate or ratify (a document) by writing one's signature on it. [from 15th c.]

fiscal

(American, law) The title of the local public official who represents the government in the prosecution of alleged criminals.

físic

A person whose occupation specializes in the science of physics, especially at a professional level.

física

A person whose occupation specializes in the science of physics, especially at a professional level.

fisicitat

Physical attributes.

fisiologia

A branch of biology that deals with the functions and activities of life or of living matter (as organs, tissues, or cells) and of the physical and chemical phenomena involved.

fisiològic

Of, or relating to physiology.

fisioteràpia

(British, Commonwealth, Irish) Therapy that uses physical techniques such as massage, ultrasound, heat, and exercise.

fisonomia

The art or pseudoscience of deducing the predominant temper and other characteristic qualities of the mind from the outward appearance, especially from the features of the face.

fístula

(medicine) An abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels that normally do not connect.

fita

(mathematics) A value which is known to be greater or smaller than a given set of values.

fitat

(analysis, of a set) That can be enclosed within a ball of finite radius.

fitó

A shot which hits the centre of a target.

fitologia

(uncountable) A branch of biology concerned with the scientific study of plants.

fitxa

(games, gambling) A token used in place of cash.

fixador

(photography) A chemical (sodium thiosulfate) used in photographic development that fixes the image in place, preventing further chemical reactions.

fixar

(intransitive) To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance.

fixat

(often followed by a preposition such as "to" or "on") To fasten or attach (something) with a pin.

flàccid

Yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; lacking firmness; flaccid.

flàccida

Flaccid; flabby, resembling flesh.

flagel·lar

(biology) Having flagella.

flagell

(countable) A cause of misery or ruin.

flageolet

(music) A type of small flute of the fipple family.

flagrant

Conspicuous, exceptional, outstanding; usually in a negative sense.

flairar

(transitive) To sense a smell or smells.

flaire

A conclusion or intuition that a situation is wrong, more complex than it seems, or otherwise inappropriate.

flairós

Having a distinctive odor.

flaix

(photography) Clipping of camera flash (“a device used to produce a flash of artificial light to help illuminate a scene”).

flaixbac

(psychology) A vivid mental image of a past trauma or other sensation that the trauma is happening in the present, especially one that recurs.

flama

The visible part of fire; a stream of burning vapour or gas, emitting light and heat.

flamant

Utterly new, as new as possible.

flamarada

A fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light.

flamejar

To cook with a showy technique where an alcoholic beverage, such as brandy, is added to hot food and then the fumes are ignited.

flamenc

A native or inhabitant of Flanders in Belgium.

flanc

(military) The extreme left or right edge of a military formation, army etc.

flatulent

Affected by gas in the intestine; likely to break wind.

flauta

(colloquial) A recorder, also a woodwind instrument.

flauta dolça

(musical instrument) A musical instrument of the woodwind family; a type of fipple flute, a simple internal duct flute.

flautí

A piccolo flute A transverse flute that is smaller than a Western concert flute and pitched nearly an octave higher.

fleca

A building or an apartment used for the preparing and baking of bread and other baked goods.

flegma

Viscid mucus produced by the body, later especially mucus expelled from the bronchial passages by coughing. [from 14th c.]

flequer

A person who bakes and sells bread, cakes and similar items.

flexibilitat

The quality of being flexible, whether physically or metaphorically.

flexió

(grammar, uncountable) The linguistic phenomenon of morphological variation, whereby terms take a number of distinct forms in order to express different grammatical features.

flirtar

(intransitive) To play at courtship; to talk with teasing affection, to insinuate sexual attraction in a playful (especially conversational) way. [from 18th c.]

flirteig

Playing at courtship; coquetry.

flirtejar

(intransitive) To play at courtship; to talk with teasing affection, to insinuate sexual attraction in a playful (especially conversational) way. [from 18th c.]

floc

A curving piece or lock of hair; a ringlet.

floc de neu

A crystal of snow, having approximate hexagonal symmetry.

floema

(botany) A vascular tissue in land plants primarily responsible for the distribution of sugars and nutrients manufactured in the shoot.

flor

A flower, especially one indicating that a fruit tree is fruiting; (collectively) a mass of such flowers.

flor de neu

A European perennial alpine plant (Leontopodium alpinum), with downy leaves and small white flower heads in a dense cluster.

floració

(botany) The event of a flower opening.

floral

Of, pertaining to, or connected with flowers.

florentí

Of, from or relating to the city of Florence, Tuscany, Italy.

florentina

A native or inhabitant of the city of Florence, Tuscany, Italy.

florera

An upright open container used mainly for displaying fresh, dried, or artificial flowers.

florí

The current currency unit in the islands of the Caribbean Netherlands, divided into 100 cents.

floricol

The edible head or curd of a cauliflower plant.

floridura

A natural substance in the form of a furry or woolly growth of tiny fungi that appears when organic material lies for a long time exposed to (usually warm and moist) air.

florir

(intransitive) To have, or open into, blossoms; to bloom.

florista

A person who sells flowers.

florit

No longer fresh, new, or interesting, in reference to ideas and immaterial things; clichéd, hackneyed, dated.

floritura

An ornamentation.

flota

A group of vessels or vehicles.

flotador

A buoyant device used to support something in water or another liquid.

flotant

That floats or float.

flotilla

(nautical) A small fleet of warships (usually of the same class), or a fleet of small ships.

flox

Any flowering plant of the genus Phlox.

fluid

Any substance which can flow with relative ease, tends to assume the shape of its container, and obeys Bernoulli's principle; a liquid, gas or plasma.

fluidament

In a fluent manner, as expressing oneself easily, especially in a foreign language.

fluïdesa

(linguistics) The quality of being fluent in a language; a person's command of a particular language.

fluir

(intransitive) To move as a fluid from one position to another.

fluix

(physics) The rate of transfer of energy (or another physical quantity), especially an electric or magnetic field, through a given surface.

fluorescent

Of or relating to fluorescence.

fluorur

(chemistry) The anionic form of a fluorine atom.

flux

The period between low tide and the next high tide of the sea as the water flows toward the shore

fòbia

An irrational, abnormal, or obsessive fear (of something).

foc

A fire at a campground or on a camping trip, often used for cooking, to provide light and heat, to drive away bugs, and as a focal point for sitting around in the evening and talking, telling stories, and singing.

foc a terra

A hearthstone, either as standalone or as the floor of an enclosed fireplace or oven.

foc creuat

(military) An arrangement of two or more weapons so each can fire diagonally at something in front of a line between them.

foc d'artifici

A device using gunpowder and other chemicals which, when lit, emits a combination of coloured flames, sparks, whistles or bangs, and sometimes made to rocket high into the sky before exploding, used for entertainment or celebration.

foc de Sant Antoni

(disease, informal) Herpes zoster, caused by Human herpes virus 3, in genus Varicellovirus.

foc gran

A large fire; a conflagration.

foca

(derogatory, UK, Irish, informal) A woman considered unpleasant in some way, particularly one considered nasty, stupid, fat, lazy, or difficult.

focal

Belonging to, concerning, or located at a focus.

focs artificials

(plural only) An event or a display where fireworks are set off.

focus

A bright, directional light or lamp, especially one used to illuminate the focus or center of attention on a stage.

fofo

Yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; lacking firmness; flaccid.

fogar

(by extension) An environment that is ideal for the growth or development of something, especially of something undesirable.

fogassa

A round loaf of bread.

fogó

(rail transport) The chamber of a steam engine, or a steam locomotive, in which the fuel is burned.

fogoner

A person who stokes, especially one on a steamship or steam train, who stokes coal in the boilers.

foguera

A fire at a campground or on a camping trip, often used for cooking, to provide light and heat, to drive away bugs, and as a focal point for sitting around in the evening and talking, telling stories, and singing.

foliaci

Having the form or other qualities of a leaf.

folívor

(biology) A herbivore that eats mostly foliage.

foll

(informal, especially, Britain) Mad; crazy.

follar

(ambitransitive, vulgar, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.

follar-se

(transitive, slang) To fuck; to have sexual intercourse with.

follet

A small atmospheric vortex appearing in clear, dry conditions, made visible by swirling dust (or dirt or sand) picked up from the ground.

follia

(uncountable) The state of being crazy; madness; derangement

folliga

Any of various aquatic birds of the genus Fulica that are mainly black with a prominent frontal shield on the forehead.

folrar

(transitive) To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.

folrat

The act of attaching such a covering.

folre

A covering for the inside surface of something.

fon

(phonetics) A speech segment that possesses distinct physical or perceptual properties, considered as a physical event without regard to its place in the phonology of a language.