florilegium
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Renaissance Latin flōrilēgium, calque of Ancient Greek ἀνθολογία (anthología, “flower-gathering”) (compare English anthology), so called because flowers were used as symbols of the finer sensibility of literature.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌflɔɹəˈliːdʒi.əm/
Noun
[edit]florilegium (plural florilegia or florilegiums)
- A collection of flowers.
- 2004, Sarah Simblet, “Plants and Gardens”, in Sketchbook for the Artist: An Innovative, Practical Approach to Drawing the World Around You, New York, N.Y.: DK Publishing, Inc., published 2005, →ISBN, page 47:
- Rich owners of private gardens commissioned large-format florilegiums to immortalize their personal taste and power of acquisition, and the drawn pages burned with the urgency and excitement of explaining every plant’s form, color, and beauty.
- 2006, Rudolf Borchardt, translated by Henry Martin, “The Garden and the Human Being”, in The Passionate Gardener, Kingston, N.Y.: McPherson & Company, published 2010, →ISBN, pages 50–51:
- Two centuries of German poetry lived in this old German flower garden, from the crude florilegiums of Baroque lyric to Eichendorff, who in its after-life, while looking back on so much by-gone glory, became its truest expression, as formulated by a new spirit, since poetry is the first and final need of the human soul, for which reality does not suffice.
- 2006, Twigs Way, “Inspiration and Perspiration: Artists and Needlewomen”, in Virgins, Weeders and Queens: A History of Women in the Garden, Stroud, Glos.: Sutton Publishing Limited, →ISBN, page 78:
- There was a considerable overlap between florilegiums, with their wealth of botanical illustration and exotic collections, and embroiderers’ source books. Crispin van de Passe’s A Garden of Flowers or Hortus Floridus (1614) contained engravings and descriptions of all types of garden flowers, and proved as invaluable to the embroiderer as to the gardener.
- An anthology, particularly of excerpts from larger works.
- (Christianity) A patristic anthology.
References
[edit]- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “florilegium”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Calque of Ancient Greek ἀνθολογία (anthología, “flower-gathering”). By surface analysis, flōrilegus (“flower-gathering”, adjective) + -ium (nominalizing suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /floː.riˈle.ɡi.um/, [fɫ̪oːrɪˈɫ̪ɛɡiʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /flo.riˈle.d͡ʒi.um/, [floriˈlɛːd͡ʒium]
Noun
[edit]flōrilegium n (genitive flōrilegiī or flōrilegī); second declension
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
singular | plural | |
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nominative | flōrilegium | flōrilegia |
genitive | flōrilegiī flōrilegī1 |
flōrilegiōrum |
dative | flōrilegiō | flōrilegiīs |
accusative | flōrilegium | flōrilegia |
ablative | flōrilegiō | flōrilegiīs |
vocative | flōrilegium | flōrilegia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
[edit]- → English: florilegium
- → French: florilège
- → Italian: florilegio
- → Spanish: florilegio
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