Florentia

See also: florentia

Latin

Etymology

From flōrēns (“flowering”) +‎ -ia (suffix forming place names).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /floːˈren.ti.a/, [fɫ̪oːˈrɛn̪t̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /floˈren.t͡si.a/, [floˈrɛnt̪͡s̪iä]

Proper noun

Flōrentia f sg (genitive Flōrentiae); first declension

1. Florence (a city in Italy)

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Flōrentia
Genitive	Flōrentiae
Dative	Flōrentiae
Accusative	Flōrentiam
Ablative	Flōrentiā
Vocative	Flōrentia
Locative	Flōrentiae

Descendants

• Gallo-Italic
  • Emilian: Fiuränza
  • Ligurian: Firense
  • Lombard: Firenz
  • Piedmontese: Firense
• Italo-Dalmatian
  • Corsican: Fiurenza
  • Neapolitan: Sciorenza
  • Old Italian: Fiorenza
    • Italian: Firenze (see there for further descendants)
  • Sicilian: Ciurenzi, Ciurenza
• Old French:
  • French: Florence (see there for further descendants)
  • Norman: Fleurenche
  • Picard: Florinche, Fleurinche
• Sardinian: Firentze, Frorentzia
• Venetan: Firense
  • Ottoman Turkish: فرنسه (Firense)
• West Iberian
  • Old Galician-Portuguese:
    • Galician:
    • Portuguese: Florença
  • Old Spanish:
    • Spanish: Florencia
• → Armenian: Ֆլորենցիա (Florencʻia) (later reinforced by Russian Флоре́нция (Floréncija))
• → Greek: Φλωρεντία (Florentía)
• → Romanian: Florența (inflenced by French Florence)
• → Russian: Флоре́нция (Floréncija)

References

• “Florentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Florentia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.