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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Renaissance Latin flōrilēgium, calque of Ancient Greek ἀνθολογία (anthología, “flower-gathering”) (compare English anthology), so called because flowers were used as symbols of the finer sensibility of literature.
Pronunciation
Noun
florilegium (plural florilegia or florilegiums)
- A collection of flowers.
2004, Sarah Simblet, “Plants and Gardens”, in Sketchbook for the Artist: An Innovative, Practical Approach to Drawing the World Around You, New York, N.Y.: DK Publishing, Inc., published 2005, →ISBN, page 47:Rich owners of private gardens commissioned large-format florilegiums to immortalize their personal taste and power of acquisition, and the drawn pages burned with the urgency and excitement of explaining every plant’s form, color, and beauty.
2006, Rudolf Borchardt, translated by Henry Martin, “The Garden and the Human Being”, in The Passionate Gardener, Kingston, N.Y.: McPherson & Company, published 2010, →ISBN, pages 50–51:Two centuries of German poetry lived in this old German flower garden, from the crude florilegiums of Baroque lyric to Eichendorff, who in its after-life, while looking back on so much by-gone glory, became its truest expression, as formulated by a new spirit, since poetry is the first and final need of the human soul, for which reality does not suffice.
2006, Twigs Way, “Inspiration and Perspiration: Artists and Needlewomen”, in Virgins, Weeders and Queens: A History of Women in the Garden, Stroud, Glos.: Sutton Publishing Limited, →ISBN, page 78:There was a considerable overlap between florilegiums, with their wealth of botanical illustration and exotic collections, and embroiderers’ source books. Crispin van de Passe’s A Garden of Flowers or Hortus Floridus (1614) contained engravings and descriptions of all types of garden flowers, and proved as invaluable to the embroiderer as to the gardener.
- An anthology, particularly of excerpts from larger works.
- (Christianity) A patristic anthology.
References
Latin
Etymology
Calque of Ancient Greek ἀνθολογία (anthología, “flower-gathering”). By surface analysis, flōrilegus (“flower-gathering”, adjective) + -ium (nominalizing suffix).
Pronunciation
Noun
flōrilegium n (genitive flōrilegiī or flōrilegī); second declension
- (Renaissance Latin) anthology
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants