flos

See also: Flos

Latin edit

flōrēs lūteī (yellow flowers)

A root noun interpreted as an s-stem noun, from Proto-Italic *flōs, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃-s (“flower, blossom”), from *bʰleh₃- (“to bloom”). Cognates include Ancient Greek φύλλον (phúllon), Gothic 𐌱𐌻𐍉𐌼𐌰 (blōma) and Old English blōstm, blæd (“leaf”) (English blossom, blade).

flōs m (genitive flōris); third declension

flower, blossom
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.253–254:
  ferte deae flōrēs: gaudet flōrentibus herbīs haec dea
  Bring flowers for the goddess; this goddess takes pleasure in flowering plants.
(figuratively) the best kind or part of something
(figuratively) the prime; best state of things
(figuratively) an ornament or embellishment

Eastern Romance:
- Aromanian: floari
- Megleno-Romanian: floari
- Romanian: floare
Italo-Romance:
- Corsican: fiore
- Italian: fiore
- Neapolitan: sciore
- Sicilian: ciuri
North Italian:
- Gallo-Italic:
  - Ligurian: sciô
  - Lombard: fiuur, fiùu
  - Piedmontese: fior
  - Romagnol: fiôr
- Friulian: flôr
- Istriot: fiùr
- Romansch: flur, flura; flour
- Venetian: fior
  - →? Dalmatian: fiaur
Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: flor
- Gascon: hlor, ehlor, eslor
- Old French: flor (see there for further descendants)
- Old Occitan: flor
  - Occitan: flor
Ibero-Romance:
- Aragonese: flor
- Asturian: flor
- Extremaduran: frol
- Mirandese: frol, flor
- Old Galician-Portuguese: flor, fror, frol; *chor
  - Galician: flor, fror, frol, chor
  - Portuguese: flor, (archaic or dialectal) fror, frol
- Old Spanish: flor
  - Ladino: flor
  - Spanish: flor
    - → English: flor
Borrowings:
- → Esperanto: floro
  - → Ido: floro
- → Interlingua: flor
- → Swedish: flor
- → Translingual: Flos
- → Volapük: flor

“flos”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“flos”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
flos 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)
flos in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the prime of youthful vigour: flos aetatis
- the perfume exhaled by flowers: odores, qui efflantur e floribus
- (ambiguous) flowers of rhetoric; embellishments of style: lumina, flores dicendi (De Or. 3. 25. 96)
- (ambiguous) a glorious expanse of flowers: laetissimi flores (Verr. 4. 48. 107)

From Arabic فلوس (fulūs, “money”).

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