Flora

See also: flora, flóra, florą, flóra-, Flóra, and Florą

English

Etymology

From Latin Flōra (Roman goddess of flowers).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈflɔːɹə/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Homophone: flora
  • Rhymes: -ɔːɹə

Proper noun

Flora

  1. (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.
  2. (astronomy) 8 Flora, a main-belt asteroid.
  3. 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, []
  4. A surname.
  5. A municipality of Norway.
  6. A city in Illinois.
  7. A resort in Suriname.
  8. A municipality of the Philippines.
  9. A town in Indiana; named for founder John Flora.
  10. A town in Mississippi; named for early resident Flora Mann Jones.
  11. A village in Norway.

Translations

Anagrams

Czech

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈflora]

Proper noun

Flora m anim (female equivalent Florová)

  1. a male surname

Declension

Further reading

  • Flora”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)

French

Etymology

From Latin Flōra.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /flɔ.ʁa/

Proper noun

Flora f

  1. a female given name from Latin, a Latinate variant of Flore

Anagrams

German

Etymology

From Latin Flōra.

Pronunciation

  • Audio (Austria):(file)
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

Flora f (genitive Flora, plural Floren)

  1. (botany) flora (plants as a group; microorganisms)

Declension

Derived terms

  • Alpenflora
  • Bakterienflora
  • Darmflora
  • Gebirgsflora
  • Inselflora
  • Landflora
  • Meeresflora
  • Nasenflora
  • Normalflora
  • Scheidenflora
  • Steppenflora
  • Sumpfflora
  • Vaginalflora
  • Waldflora

Proper noun

Flora

  1. (Roman mythology) Flora
  2. a female given name from Latin, masculine equivalent Florian

Further reading

  • Flora” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Italian

Etymology

From Latin Flōra.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈflɔ.ra/
  • Rhymes: -ɔra
  • Hyphenation: Flò‧ra

Proper noun

Flora f

  1. (Roman mythology) the goddess of flowers, Flora
  2. a female given name from Latin

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

Proper noun

Flōra f (genitive Flōrae); first declension

  1. (Roman mythology) Flora, the goddess of flowers.

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

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

  1. 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

  1. 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

  1. (countable) a female given name from Latin, equivalent to English Flora
  2. (uncountable, Roman mythology) Flora (goddess of flowers)

Declension

Further reading

  • Flora in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Flora in PWN's encyclopedia

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Flōra.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈflɔ.ɾɐ/

  • Homophone: flora
  • Hyphenation: Flo‧ra

Proper noun

Flora f

  1. a female given name from Latin, equivalent to English Flora
  2. (Roman mythology) Flora (goddess of nature)

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin Flōra.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfloɾa/ [ˈflo.ɾa]
  • Rhymes: -oɾa
  • Syllabification: Flo‧ra

Proper noun

Flora f

  1. (Roman mythology) Flora
  2. a female given name from Latin

Descendants

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)

  1. a female given name from Spanish, equivalent to English Flora
  2. (Roman mythology) Flora (goddess of flowers)
  3. a municipality of Apayao, Philippines