Flora
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈflɔːɹə/
- Homophone: flora
- Rhymes: -ɔːɹə
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.
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Translations
the goddess of flowers
female given name
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French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /flɔ.ʁa/
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German
Pronunciation
Audio (Austria) (file) Audio (file)
Declension
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
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈflɔ.ra/
- Rhymes: -ɔra
- Hyphenation: Flò‧ra
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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) IPA(key): /ˈfloː.ra/, [ˈfɫ̪oːrä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈflo.ra/, [ˈflɔːrä]
Proper noun
Flōra f (genitive Flōrae); first declension
Declension
First-declension noun, singular only.
Case | Singular |
---|---|
Nominative | Flōra |
Genitive | Flōrae |
Dative | Flōrae |
Accusative | Flōram |
Ablative | Flōrā |
Vocative | Flōra |
Descendants
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
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
Portuguese
Proper noun
Flora f
- a female given name from Latin, equivalent to English Flora
- (Roman mythology) Flora (goddess of nature)
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Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfloɾa/ [ˈflo.ɾa]
- Rhymes: -oɾa
- Syllabification: Flo‧ra
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Descendants
- → Tagalog: Flora
Tagalog
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈfloɾa/ [ˈflo.ɾɐ]
- IPA(key): (more native-sounding) /ˈploɾa/ [ˈplo.ɾɐ]
- Rhymes: -oɾa
- Syllabification: Flo‧ra
Proper noun
Flora (Baybayin spelling ᜉ᜔ᜎᜓᜇ)
- a female given name from Spanish, equivalent to English Flora
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