flos
Latin
Etymology
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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 Latin) IPA(key): /floːs/, [fɫ̪oːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /flos/, [flɔs]
Audio (Classical): (file)
Noun
flōs m (genitive flōris); third declension
- flower, blossom
- (figuratively) the best kind or part of something
- (figuratively) the prime; best state of things
- (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
- flōreō
- flōreus
- *flōriculus (Vulgar Latin)
- flōsculus
Related terms
Descendants
- Aragonese: flor
- Esperanto: floro
- Ido: floro
- Interlingua: flor
- Old French: flor, fleur, flour, flur
- Old Leonese:
- Old Galician-Portuguese: flor, fror, frol, *chor
- Old Occitan: flor
- Old Spanish: flor
- Aromanian: floari, floarã
- Corsican: fiore
- Dalmatian: fiaur
- Friulian: flôr
- Istriot: fiuri
- Italian: fiore
- Romagnol: fjór
- Romanian: floare
- Romansch: flur
- Sardinian: frore, fiòre, flore
- Sicilian: ciuri
- Swedish: flor
- Venetian: fior
- → Maltese: fjura (from Italo-Romance)
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)
- the prime of youthful vigour: flos aetatis
Categories:
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin 1-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Latin lemmas
- Latin nouns
- Latin third declension nouns
- Latin masculine nouns in the third declension
- Latin masculine nouns
- Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook
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