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Flora

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See also: flora, flóra, florą, flóra-, Flóra, and Florą

English

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Goddess Flora

Etymology

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From Latin Flōra (Roman goddess of flowers).

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Flora

Flora astronomical symbol
  1. (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.
  2. (astronomy) 8 Flora, a main-belt asteroid.
  3. 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, []
  4. A surname.
  5. A municipality of Norway.
  6. A city in Illinois.
  7. A resort in Suriname.
  8. A municipality of the Philippines.
  9. A town in Indiana; named for founder John Flora.
  10. A town in Mississippi; named for early resident Flora Mann Jones.
  11. A village in Norway.
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Czech

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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Proper noun

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Flora m anim (female equivalent Florová)

  1. a male surname

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Further reading

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  • Flora”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)

French

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Etymology

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From Latin Flōra.

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Flora f

  1. a female given name from Latin, a Latinate variant of Flore
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German

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Etymology

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From Latin Flōra.

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Noun

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Flora f (genitive Flora, plural Floren)

  1. (botany) flora (plants as a group; microorganisms)

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Proper noun

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Flora

  1. (Roman mythology) Flora
  2. a female given name from Latin, masculine equivalent Florian

Further reading

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  • Flora” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Italian

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Etymology

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From Latin Flōra.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈflɔ.ra/
  • Rhymes: -ɔra
  • Hyphenation: Flò‧ra

Proper noun

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Flora f

  1. (Roman mythology) the goddess of flowers, Flora
  2. a female given name from Latin
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Latin

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Jan Massys, Flōra, 1559, Hamburger Kunsthalle

Etymology

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From Proto-Italic *Flōzā, from an ā-thematic extension of *flōs (flower), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰléh₃s ~ *bʰl̥h₃s-és, from *bʰleh₃- (bloom, flower).

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Proper noun

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Flōra f (genitive Flōrae); first declension

  1. (Roman mythology) Flora, the goddess of flowers.

Declension

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First-declension noun, singular only.

singular
nominative Flōra
genitive Flōrae
dative Flōrae
accusative Flōram
ablative Flōrā
vocative Flōra

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • English: Flora
  • French: Flore, Flora
  • German: Flora
  • Italian: Flora
  • Portuguese: Flora
  • Spanish: Flora

References

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  • 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

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Proper noun

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Flora

  1. 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

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Proper noun

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Flora

  1. 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

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin Flōra.

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Flora f

  1. (countable) a female given name from Latin, equivalent to English Flora
  2. (uncountable, Roman mythology) Flora (goddess of flowers)

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Further reading

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  • Flora in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Flora in PWN's encyclopedia

Portuguese

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin Flōra.

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Flora f

  1. a female given name from Latin, equivalent to English Flora
  2. (Roman mythology) Flora (goddess of nature)
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Spanish

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Etymology

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From Latin Flōra.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfloɾa/ [ˈflo.ɾa]
  • Rhymes: -oɾa
  • Syllabification: Flo‧ra

Proper noun

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Flora f

  1. (Roman mythology) Flora
  2. a female given name from Latin
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Tagalog

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish Flora, from Latin Flōra.

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Flora (Baybayin spelling ᜉ᜔ᜎᜓᜇ)

  1. a female given name from Spanish, equivalent to English Flora
  2. (Roman mythology) Flora (goddess of flowers)
  3. A municipality of Apayao, Philippines