Firenze

From Italian Firenze. Doublet of Florence.

Firenze

1. Alternative form of Florence:
   • 1896, W[alter] D[elaplaine] Scull, “Mrs. Platt”, in The Garden of the Matchboxes and Other Stories, London: Elkin Mathews, page 94:

     But it would have been so nice to have a private income, and to be able sometimes to go to Venezia, Firenze, Roma, those places with the beautiful names.

   • 1996, Fred Plotkin, “Introduction: Garibaldi with a Fork”, in Italy for the Gourmet Traveler, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 5:

     When you plan your first visit to Italy, you will likely put Roma, Firenze, and Venezia at the top of your list, perhaps adding Milano and Napoli as well. These destinations make sense because they are all world-class cities with great history, art, architecture, culture, and food.

   • 2014 December, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, chapter 2, in Sustenance: A Novel of the Count Saint-Germain, New York, N.Y.: Tor, →ISBN, page 40:

     His black slacks were the handiwork of his British tailor of a wool-and-Angora blend; his thick-soled shoes were made in Firenze of black leather, and fitted more like gloves than shoes.

   1. A city and comune, the capital of the Metropolitan City of Florence and the region of Tuscany, Italy.
   2. A metropolitan city of Tuscany, established in 2015; in full, the Metropolitan City of Florence.

Borrowed from Italian, inherited from Latin Flōrentia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfirentse/, [ˈfire̞n.ts̠e̞]
• Rhymes: -irentse
• Syllabification^(key): Fi‧ren‧ze
• Hyphenation^(key): Fi‧ren‧ze

Firenze

1. Florence (a city and comune, the capital of the Metropolitan City of Florence and the region of Tuscany, Italy)
2. Florence (a metropolitan city of Tuscany, established in 2015; in full, the Metropolitan City of Florence)

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From Old Italian Fiorenze, from Latin Flōrentiae, locative of Flōrentia. Cf. the alternative obsolete form Fiorenza, from the accusative.

• IPA^(key): /fiˈrɛn.t͡se/

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• Rhymes: -ɛntse
• Hyphenation: Fi‧rèn‧ze

Firenze f

1. Florence (a city and comune, the capital of the Metropolitan City of Florence and the region of Tuscany, Italy)
   • 1348, Giovanni Villani, “Libro primo [First Book]”, in Nuova Cronica [New Chronicle]‎^[1], published 1991, section 1:

     Con ciò sia cosa che per gli nostri antichi Fiorentini poche e nonn-ordinate memorie si truovino di fatti passati della nostra città di Firenze, […] , io Giovanni cittadino di Firenze, considerando la nobiltà e grandezza della nostra città a’ nostri presenti tempi, mi pare che si convegna di raccontare e fare memoria dell’origine e cominciamento di così famosa città

     Since few and disorderly memories are found, among our oldest Florentines, of past events of our city Florence, I – Giovanni, citizen of Florence –, considering our city's nobility and greatness at the present time, believe it's appropriate to tell and remember the origin and the beginning of such a famous city.

2. Florence (a metropolitan city of Tuscany, established in 2015; in full, the Metropolitan City of Florence)
3. the letter F in the Italian spelling alphabet

• → Danish: Firenze
• → Finnish: Firenze
• → Japanese: フィレンツェ (Firentse)
• → Korean: 피렌체 (Pirenche)

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