flos

See also: Flos

Latin

flōrēs lūteī (yellow flowers)

Etymology

A root noun interpreted as an s-stem noun, from Proto-Italic *flōs, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃-s (“flower, blossom”), from *bʰleh₃- (“to bloom”). Cognates include Ancient Greek φύλλον (phúllon), Gothic 𐌱𐌻𐍉𐌼𐌰 (blōma) and Old English blōstm, blæd (“leaf”) (English blossom, blade).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /floːs/, [fɫ̪oːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /flos/, [flɔs]

Noun

flōs m (genitive flōris); third declension

1. flower, blossom
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.253–254:

     ferte deae flōrēs: gaudet flōrentibus herbīs haec dea

     Bring flowers for the goddess; this goddess takes pleasure in flowering plants.

2. (figuratively) the best kind or part of something
3. (figuratively) the prime; best state of things
4. (figuratively) an ornament or embellishment

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	flōs	flōrēs
Genitive	flōris	flōrum
Dative	flōrī	flōribus
Accusative	flōrem	flōrēs
Ablative	flōre	flōribus
Vocative	flōs	flōrēs

Derived terms

• flōreus
• flōreō
• flōricolor
• flōricomus
• *flōriculus (Vulgar Latin)
• flōrifer
• flōrigenus
• flōriger
• flōriparus
• flōrisapus
• flōrulentus
• flōrus
• flōrētum
• flōrōsus
• flōscula
• flōsculus

 

Related terms

• Flōra
• flōrenter
• flōrentēs
• Flōrida
• flōridulus
• flōridus
• flōridē
• flōritiō
• Flōrus
• flōrālia
• flōrēns
• flōrēscens
• flōrēscō
• flōscellus
• flōsculē

 

Descendants

• Eastern Romance:
  • Aromanian: floari
  • Megleno-Romanian: floari
  • Romanian: floare
• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: fiore
  • Italian: fiore
  • Neapolitan: sciore
  • Sicilian: ciuri
• North Italian:
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Ligurian: sciô
    • Lombard: fiuur, fiùu
    • Piedmontese: fior
    • Romagnol: fiôr
  • Friulian: flôr
  • Istriot: fiùr
  • Romansch: flur, flura; flour
  • Venetian: fior
    • →? Dalmatian: fiaur
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: flor
  • Gascon: hlor, ehlor, eslor
  • Old French: flor (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Occitan: flor
    • Occitan: flor
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: flor
  • Asturian: flor
  • Extremaduran: frol
  • Mirandese: frol, flor
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: flor, fror, frol; *chor
    • Galician: flor, fror, frol, chor
    • Portuguese: flor, (archaic or dialectal) fror, frol
  • Old Spanish: flor
    • Ladino: flor
    • Spanish: flor
      • → English: flor
• Borrowings:
  • → Esperanto: floro
    • → Ido: floro
  • → Interlingua: flor
  • → Swedish: flor
  • → Translingual: Flos
  • → Volapük: flor

References

• “flos”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “flos”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• flos in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• flos in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the prime of youthful vigour: flos aetatis
    
  • the perfume exhaled by flowers: odores, qui efflantur e floribus
    
  • (ambiguous) flowers of rhetoric; embellishments of style: lumina, flores dicendi (De Or. 3. 25. 96)
    
  • (ambiguous) a glorious expanse of flowers: laetissimi flores (Verr. 4. 48. 107)
    

Swedish

Alternative forms

• floss
• flous
• flouse

Etymology

From Arabic فلوس (fulūs, “money”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fluːs/

Noun

flos ?

1. (slang) money

References

• Slangopedia