florus

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florus

1. conditional of flori

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁-. Related to Latin flāvus (“yellow, blond”) and Old High German blāo (“blue, dark, grey”) (from Proto-Germanic *blēwaz). Originally a colour adjective (as in Romanian), it was later reinterpreted as a derivation from flōs or flōreō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfloː.rus/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈflo.rus/,

flōrus (feminine flōra, neuter flōrum, comparative flōrior, superlative flōrissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. (rare) yellow, blond; flowering; shining, bright

First/second-declension adjective.

• Romanian: flor

• “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