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Flora

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

Declension

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Declension of Flora (masculine animate in -a)
singular plural
nominative Flora Florové
genitive Flory Florů
dative Florovi Florům
accusative Floru Flory
vocative Floro Florové
locative Florovi Florech
instrumental Florou Flory

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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Declension of Flora [feminine]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative eine die Flora die Floren
genitive einer der Flora der Floren
dative einer der Flora den Floren
accusative eine die Flora die Floren

Derived terms

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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.

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

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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.

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First-declension noun, singular only.

Case 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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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)

Declension

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Declension of Flora
singular plural
nominative Flora Flory
genitive Flory Flor
dative Florze Florom
accusative Florę Flory
instrumental Florą Florami
locative Florze Florach
vocative Floro Flory

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.

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

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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
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