floristia
Macanese
editEtymology
editPossibly from Portuguese flostria,[1] folestria or folastria, with metathesis and/or possible contamination by Portuguese flor (“flower”). Portuguese flostria further derived from Old French folastre or folastrie (modern French folâtre).[2]
Noun
editfloristia
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- ^ Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “florestia”, in Glossário do dialecto macaense: notas linguísticas, etnográficas e folclóricas [Glossary of the Macanese dialect: linguistic, ethnographic and folkloric notes], Macau: Instituto Cultural de Macau, page 444
- ^ https://dicionario.priberam.org/flostria