Florentia

See also: florentia

Latin

Etymology

From flōrēns (“flowering”) +‎ -ia (suffix forming place names).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Flōrentia f sg (genitive Flōrentiae); first declension

  1. Florence (a city, the capital of the modern region of Tuscany, Italy)

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

singular
nominative Flōrentia
genitive Flōrentiae
dative Flōrentiae
accusative Flōrentiam
ablative Flōrentiā
vocative Flōrentia
locative Flōrentiae

Descendants

  • Insular Romance:
    • Sardinian: Firentze, Frorentzia
  • Italo-Dalmatian:
    • Corsican: Fiurenza
    • Neapolitan: Sciorenza
    • Old Italian: Fiorenza
      • Italian: Firenze (see there for further descendants)
    • Sicilian: Ciurenza
    • Venetan: Firense
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Emilian: Fiuränza
    • Ligurian: Firense
    • Lombard: Firenz
    • Piedmontese: Firense
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Old French:
      • French: Florence (see there for further descendants)
      • Norman: Fleurenche
      • Picard: Florinche, Fleurinche
  • Ibero-Romance: (probably all borrowings)
  • Borrowings:

References

  • “Florentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Florentia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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