florus
Esperanto edit
Pronunciation edit
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Verb edit
florus
- conditional of flori
Latin edit
Etymology edit
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.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfloː.rus/, [ˈfɫ̪oːrʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈflo.rus/, [ˈflɔːrus]
Adjective edit
flōrus (feminine flōra, neuter flōrum, comparative flōrior, superlative flōrissimus); first/second-declension adjective
Declension edit
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 edit
- Romanian: flor
References edit
- “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
- ^ cf. Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN – who does not mention flōrus – for flāvus and Proto-Germanic *blēwa-
- ^ 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