Flora

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

English

Goddess Flora

Etymology

From Latin Flōra (Roman goddess of flowers).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈflɔːɹə/

• Audio (US):

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• Homophone: flora
• Rhymes: -ɔːɹə

Proper noun

Flora

Flora astronomical symbol

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 number of places in the United States:
   1. A former community in Alachua County, Florida, annexed by Gainesville.
   2. A city in Clay County, Illinois.
   3. A township in Boone County, Illinois.
   4. A town in Monroe Township, Carroll County, Indiana; named for founder John Flora.
   5. A township in Dickinson County, Kansas.
   6. An unincorporated community in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana.
   7. A township in Renville County, Minnesota.
   8. A town in Madison County, Mississippi; named for early resident Flora Mann Jones.
   9. A ghost town in Meigs County, Ohio.
   10. An unincorporated community in Wallowa County, Oregon.
6. Other places elsewhere:
   1. A resort in Suriname.
   2. A municipality of the Philippines.
   3. A village in Selbu municipality, Trøndelag county, Norway.
   4. A former municipality in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway.

Derived terms

• Flora Hill

Related terms

• flora

Translations

the goddess of flowers

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 佛洛拉 (Fóluòlā)

• Czech: Flóra f
• French: Flore (fr)
• German: Flora (de)
• Italian: Flora (it) f
• Japanese: フローラ (furōra)
• Latin: Flōra f
• Marathi: फ्लोरा f (phlorā)
• Norwegian: Flora (no) f
• Polish: Flora (pl) f
• Portuguese: Flora (pt) f
• Russian: Фло́ра (ru) f (Flóra)
• Spanish: Flora (es)

female given name

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 弗洛拉 (Fúluòlā)

• Czech: Flóra f
• French: Flore (fr), Flora (fr)
• German: Flora (de)
• Italian: Flora (it) f
• Marathi: फ्लोरा f (phlorā)
• Polish: Flora (pl) f
• Portuguese: Flora (pt) f
• Russian: Фло́ра (ru) f (Flóra)
• Scottish Gaelic: Flòraidh f
• Spanish: Flora (es)
• Tagalog: Flora (tl)

asteroid

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 花神星 (Huāshénxīng)

• Italian: Flora (it)
• Russian: Фло́ра (ru) f (Flóra)

Anagrams

• FoLAR, folar

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

Declension of Flora (masculine animate in -a)

	singular	plural
nominative	Flora	Florové
genitive	Flory	Florů
dative	Florovi	Florům
accusative	Floru	Flory
vocative	Floro	Florové
locative	Florovi	Florech
instrumental	Florou	Flory

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

Related terms

• flore

Anagrams

• frôla

German

Etymology

From Latin Flōra.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Austria):

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• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Noun

Flora f (genitive Flora, plural Floren)

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

Declension

Declension of Flora [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Flora	die	Floren
genitive	einer	der	Flora	der	Floren
dative	einer	der	Flora	den	Floren
accusative	eine	die	Flora	die	Floren

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^[1] (in German)

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

Related terms

• flora

Anagrams

• farlo

Latin

Jan Massys, Flōra, 1559, Hamburger Kunsthalle

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

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

• Flōrālia
• Flōrālicius
• Flōrālis
• Flōrālitius
• Flōrius

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

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

Declension of Flora

	singular	plural
nominative	Flora	Flory
genitive	Flory	Flor
dative	Florze	Florom
accusative	Florę	Flory
instrumental	Florą	Florami
locative	Florze	Florach
vocative	Floro	Flory

Further reading

• “Flora”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)
• Flora in PWN's encyclopedia

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Flōra.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈflɔ.ɾɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈflɔ.ɾɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈflɔ.ɾa/

• (Portugal) 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)

Related terms

• flora

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

Related terms

• flora

Descendants

• → Tagalog: Flora

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Flora, from Latin Flōra.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈfloɾa/ [ˈfloː.ɾɐ]
  • IPA^(key): (with nativization) /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