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Esperanto
Pronunciation
Verb
florus
- conditional of flori
Latin
Etymology
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
Adjective
flōrus (feminine flōra, neuter flōrum, comparative flōrior, superlative flōrissimus); first/second-declension adjective
- (rare) yellow, blond; flowering; shining, bright
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “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. Guus Kroonen (2013) Alexander Lubotsky, editor, 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