Flora
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin Flōra (Roman goddess of flowers).
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Flora
- (Roman mythology) the goddess of flowers, nature and spring; she is also the wife of Favonius and the mother of Karpos. She is the Roman counterpart of Chloris.
- (astronomy) 8 Flora, a main-belt asteroid.
- A female given name from Latin.
- 1933, Eleanor Farjeon, “Girls' Names”, in Over the Garden Wall, Faber and Faber, page 91:
- What lovely names for girls there are! / There's Stella like the Evening Star, / And Sylvia like a rustling tree, / And Lola like a melody, / And Flora like a flowery morn, […]
- A surname.
- A municipality of Norway.
- A city in Illinois.
- A resort in Suriname.
- A municipality of the Philippines.
- A town in Indiana; named for founder John Flora.
- A town in Mississippi; named for early resident Flora Mann Jones.
- A village in Norway.
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]the goddess of flowers
female given name
Anagrams
[edit]Czech
[edit]Etymology
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Flora m anim (female equivalent Florová)
- a male surname
Declension
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “Flora”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Flora f
- a female given name from Latin, a Latinate variant of Flore
Related terms
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[edit]German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Flora f (genitive Flora, plural Floren)
Declension
[edit]Declension of Flora [feminine]
Derived terms
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Flora
- (Roman mythology) Flora
- a female given name from Latin, masculine equivalent Florian
Further reading
[edit]- “Flora” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Flora f
- (Roman mythology) the goddess of flowers, Flora
- a female given name from Latin
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[edit]Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Italic *Flōzā, from an ā-thematic extension of *flōs (“flower”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰléh₃s ~ *bʰl̥h₃s-és, from *bʰleh₃- (“bloom, flower”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈfloː.ra/, [ˈfɫ̪oːrä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈflo.ra/, [ˈflɔːrä]
Proper noun
[edit]Flōra f (genitive Flōrae); first declension
Declension
[edit]First-declension noun, singular only.
Case | Singular |
---|---|
Nominative | Flōra |
Genitive | Flōrae |
Dative | Flōrae |
Accusative | Flōram |
Ablative | Flōrā |
Vocative | Flōra |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → English: Flora
- French: Flore, Flora
- → German: Flora
- Italian: Flora
- Portuguese: Flora
- Spanish: Flora
- → Tagalog: Flora
References
[edit]- “Flora”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Flora in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Flora
- A former municipality of Sogn og Fjordane, Norway, with its administrative centre in Florø. Merged with Vågsøy on 1 January 2020 under the name of Kinn.
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Flora
- A former municipality of Sogn og Fjordane, Norway, with its administrative centre in Florø. Merged with Vågsøy on 1 January 2020 under the name of Kinn.
Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin Flōra.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Flora f
- (countable) a female given name from Latin, equivalent to English Flora
- (uncountable, Roman mythology) Flora (goddess of flowers)
Declension
[edit]Declension of Flora
Further reading
[edit]Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin Flōra.
Pronunciation
[edit]
Proper noun
[edit]Flora f
- a female given name from Latin, equivalent to English Flora
- (Roman mythology) Flora (goddess of nature)
Related terms
[edit]Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Flora f
- (Roman mythology) Flora
- a female given name from Latin
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Tagalog: Flora
Tagalog
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish Flora, from Latin Flōra.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈfloɾa/ [ˈfloː.ɾɐ]
- Rhymes: -oɾa
- Syllabification: Flo‧ra
Proper noun
[edit]Flora (Baybayin spelling ᜉ᜔ᜎᜓᜇ)
- a female given name from Spanish, equivalent to English Flora
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