Flora

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See also: flora, flóra, florą, flóra-, Flóra, and Florą

English

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Goddess Flora

Etymology

From Latin Flōra (Roman goddess of flowers).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

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.

Translations

Anagrams

Czech

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Flora m anim (female equivalent Florová)

  1. a male surname

Declension

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

  • “Flora”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)

French

Etymology

From Latin Flōra.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Flora f

  1. a female given name from Latin, a Latinate variant of Flore

Anagrams

German

Etymology

From Latin Flōra.

Pronunciation

Noun

Flora f (genitive Flora, plural Floren)

  1. (botany) flora (plants as a group; microorganisms)

Declension

Declension of Flora
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

Proper noun

Flora

  1. (Roman mythology) Flora
  2. a female given name from Latin, masculine equivalent Florian

Further reading

  • “Flora” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Italian

Etymology

From Latin Flōra.

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Flora f

  1. (Roman mythology) the goddess of flowers, Flora
  2. a female given name from Latin

Anagrams

Latin

Jan Massys, Flōra, 1559, Hamburger Kunsthalle

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *Flōzā, from an ā-thematic extension of *flōs (“flower”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰléh₃s ~ *bʰl̥h₃s-és, from *bʰleh₃- (“bloom, flower”).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Flōra f (genitive Flōrae); first declension

  1. (Roman mythology) Flora, the goddess of flowers.

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

singular
nominative Flōra
genitive Flōrae
dative Flōrae
accusative Flōram
ablative Flōrā
vocative Flōra

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → English: Flora
  • French: Flore, Flora
  • → German: Flora
  • Italian: Flora
  • Portuguese: Flora
  • Spanish: Flora

References

  • “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

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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Proper noun

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

Learned borrowing from Latin Flōra.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Flora f

  1. (countable) a female given name from Latin, equivalent to English Flora
  2. (uncountable, Roman mythology) Flora (goddess of flowers)

Declension

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

  • Flora in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Flora in PWN's encyclopedia

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Flōra.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Flora f

  1. a female given name from Latin, equivalent to English Flora
  2. (Roman mythology) Flora (goddess of nature)

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin Flōra.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfloɾa/
  • Rhymes: -oɾa
  • Syllabification: Flo‧ra

Proper noun

Flora f

  1. (Roman mythology) Flora
  2. a female given name from Latin

Descendants

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Flora, from Latin Flōra.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Flora (Baybayin spelling ᜉ᜔ᜎᜓᜇ)

  1. a female given name from Spanish, equivalent to English Flora
  2. (Roman mythology) Flora (goddess of flowers)
  3. A municipality of Apayao, Philippines
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