Florence
English
/ˈflɒɹəns/, /ˈflɔɹəns/, /ˈflɑɹɪns/
proper noun
Definitions
- (capital city in Tuscany).
- (metropolitan city in Tuscany).
- (community in Cape Breton).
- (suburb in Stoke-on-Trent).
- (city/county seat in Lauderdale County).
- (town/county seat in Pinal County).
- (unincorporated community in Los Angeles County).
- (statutory city in Fremont County).
- (village in Pike County).
- (unincorporated community in Stephenson County).
- (unincorporated CDP in York Township).
- (tiny city in Marion County).
- (home rule city in Boone County).
- (unincorporated community in St. Mary Parish).
- (village in Northampton).
- (tiny city in Lyon County).
- (town in Rankin County).
- (unincorporated community in Morgan County).
- (CDP in Ravalli County).
- (neighborhood in Omaha).
- (township in New Jersey).
- (town in Oneida County).
- (unincorporated community in Paint Township).
- (coastal city in Lane County).
- (unincorporated community in Hanover Township).
- (city/county seat in Florence County).
- (town in Codington County).
- (unincorporated community in Rutherford County).
- (city in Williamson County).
- (unincorporated community in Pittsford).
- (unincorporated community in Snohomish County).
- (unincorporated CDP/county seat in Florence County).
- (town in Florence County), surrounding the census-designated place of the same name.
Etymology
Borrowed from French Florence derived from Latin Flōrentia root from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (flower, blossom, bloom, thrive, flourish, inflate, blow, swell, leaf).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*bʰleh₃-
Gloss
flower, blossom, bloom, thrive, flourish, inflate, blow, swell, leaf
Concept
Semantic Field
Agriculture and vegetation
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
花
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- abloom English
- bloom English
- bloomery English
- bloomest English
- bloometh English
- bloomless English
- bloomly English
- bloomsome English
- bloomy English
- checkerbloom English
- embloom English
- exfoliate English
- florid English
- florulent English
- maybloom English
- outbloom English
- rebloom English
- Firenze Finnish
- Flōra Latin
- Flōrentia Latin
- efflōrēscere Latin
- flos, flōs, flōrem Latin
- flōrem Latin
- flōreō Latin
- flōris Latin
- flōrālis Latin
- flōs Latin
- folia Latin
- fullo Latin
- Fiorenza Italian
- Firenze Italian
- fiorino Italian
- bloem Dutch, Flemish
- opfleuren Dutch, Flemish
- Florence French
- Florencia Spanish, Castilian
- φάλαινα Ancient Greek
- φάλλαινα Ancient Greek
- *bʰel- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰleh₃- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰleh₃-s Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰleh₃-s- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰlh̥₃otom Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰolh₃-yom Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰolh₃yom Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰolyo- Proto-Indo-European
- Florença Portuguese
- *bladą Proto-Germanic
- *blēdaz Proto-Germanic
- *blēduz Proto-Germanic
- *blōaną Proto-Germanic
- *blōdiz Proto-Germanic
- *blōmô Proto-Germanic
- *blōsmaz Proto-Germanic
- *blōsmô Proto-Germanic
- *blōstmô Proto-Germanic
- *blōþą Proto-Germanic
- フローレンス Japanese
- blome Middle English
- blóm Old Norse
- blóma Old Norse
- Florența Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- bluomo Old High German
- blás Old Irish
- bloom Manx
- Florence Tagalog
- *belyos Proto-Celtic
- *blātus Proto-Celtic
- plūme Middle Low German
- *flōs Proto-Italic
- *palanǰāsp Middle Persian
- Sciorenza Neapolitan