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Verb

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florus

  1. conditional of flori

Latin

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Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁-.[1] Related to Latin flāvus (yellow, blond) and Old High German blāo (blue, dark, grey) (from Proto-Germanic *blēwaz).[2] Originally a colour adjective (as in Romanian), it was later reinterpreted as a derivation from flōs or flōreō.

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

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

Declension

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First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative flōrus flōra flōrum flōrī flōrae flōra
Genitive flōrī flōrae flōrī flōrōrum flōrārum flōrōrum
Dative flōrō flōrō flōrīs
Accusative flōrum flōram flōrum flōrōs flōrās flōra
Ablative flōrō flōrā flōrō flōrīs
Vocative flōre flōra flōrum flōrī flōrae flōra

Descendants

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  • Romanian: flor

References

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  • 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
  1. ^ cf. Guus Kroonen (2013) Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN – who does not mention flōrus – for flāvus and Proto-Germanic *blēwa-
  2. ^ Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1991) “IV.C.1.5.3 eh₃C”, in The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Latin (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 2), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 147