florus

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Verb

florus

1. conditional of flori

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁-. Related to Latin flāvus (“yellow, blond”) and Old High German blāo (“blue, dark, grey”) (from Proto-Germanic *blēwaz). Originally a colour adjective (as in Romanian), it was later reinterpreted as a derivation from flōs or flōreō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfloː.rus/, [ˈfɫ̪oːrʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈflo.rus/, [ˈflɔːrus]

Adjective

flōrus (feminine flōra, neuter flōrum, comparative flōrior, superlative flōrissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. (rare) yellow, blond; flowering; shining, bright

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	flōrus	flōra	flōrum		flōrī	flōrae	flōra
genitive	flōrī	flōrae	flōrī		flōrōrum	flōrārum	flōrōrum
dative	flōrō	flōrae	flōrō		flōrīs
accusative	flōrum	flōram	flōrum		flōrōs	flōrās	flōra
ablative	flōrō	flōrā	flōrō		flōrīs
vocative	flōre	flōra	flōrum		flōrī	flōrae	flōra

Descendants

• Romanian: flor

References

• “florus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “florus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• florus 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)
• florus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “florus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “florus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray