Flora
English
Etymology
From Latin Flōra (Roman goddess of flowers).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Flora
- (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.
- (astronomy) 8 Flora, a main-belt asteroid.
- 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, […]
- A surname.
- A municipality of Norway.
- A city in Illinois.
- A resort in Suriname.
- A municipality of the Philippines.
- A town in Indiana; named for founder John Flora.
- A town in Mississippi; named for early resident Flora Mann Jones.
- A village in Norway.
Related terms
Translations
the goddess of flowers
female given name
Anagrams
Czech
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈflora]
Proper noun
Flora m anim (female equivalent Florová)
- a male surname
Declension
Further reading
- “Flora”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /flɔ.ʁa/
Proper noun
Flora f
- a female given name from Latin, a Latinate variant of Flore
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Anagrams
German
Etymology
Pronunciation
Audio (Austria): (file) Audio: (file)
Noun
Flora f (genitive Flora, plural Floren)
Declension
Declension of Flora [feminine]
Derived terms
- Alpenflora
- Bakterienflora
- Darmflora
- Gebirgsflora
- Inselflora
- Landflora
- Meeresflora
- Nasenflora
- Normalflora
- Scheidenflora
- Steppenflora
- Sumpfflora
- Vaginalflora
- Waldflora
Proper noun
Flora
- (Roman mythology) Flora
- a female given name from Latin, masculine equivalent Florian
Further reading
- “Flora” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
Italian
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈflɔ.ra/
- Rhymes: -ɔra
- Hyphenation: Flò‧ra
Proper noun
Flora f
- (Roman mythology) the goddess of flowers, Flora
- a female given name from Latin
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Anagrams
Latin
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
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈfɫoː.ra]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈflɔː.ra]
Proper noun
Flōra f (genitive Flōrae); first declension
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
- → Tagalog: 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
Proper noun
Flora
- 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
Proper noun
Flora
- 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
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin Flōra.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈflɔ.ra/
- Rhymes: -ɔra
- Syllabification: Flo‧ra
- Homophone: flora
Proper noun
Flora f
- (countable) a female given name from Latin, equivalent to English Flora
- (uncountable, Roman mythology) Flora (goddess of flowers)
Declension
Declension of Flora
Further reading
Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin Flōra.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈflɔ.ɾɐ/
- Homophone: flora
- Hyphenation: Flo‧ra
Proper noun
Flora f
- a female given name from Latin, equivalent to English Flora
- (Roman mythology) Flora (goddess of nature)
Related terms
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfloɾa/ [ˈflo.ɾa]
- Rhymes: -oɾa
- Syllabification: Flo‧ra
Proper noun
Flora f
- (Roman mythology) Flora
- a female given name from Latin
Related terms
Descendants
- → Tagalog: Flora
Tagalog
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish Flora, from Latin Flōra.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈfloɾa/ [ˈfloː.ɾɐ]
- IPA(key): (more-native sounding) /ˈploɾa/ [ˈploː.ɾɐ]
- Rhymes: -oɾa
- Syllabification: Flo‧ra
Proper noun
Flora (Baybayin spelling ᜉ᜔ᜎᜓᜇ)
- a female given name from Spanish, equivalent to English Flora
- (Roman mythology) Flora (goddess of flowers)
- a municipality of Apayao, Philippines