Floransa

Turkish

Florence, Italy

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin flōrens

Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-ijos

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -ius

Latin -ia

Latin Flōrentia

Middle French Florence

French Florencebor.

Turkish Floransa

Borrowed from French Florence, from Middle French Florence, from Latin Flōrentia, from flōrens (“flowering”) + -ia (suffix forming place names).

Compare Ottoman Turkish فرنسه (Firense), from the Venetan and Italian forms of the name.

Proper noun

Floransa

1. Florence (a city and comune, the capital of the Metropolitan City of Florence and the region of Tuscany, Italy)
2. Florence (a metropolitan city of Tuscany, established in 2015; in full, the Metropolitan City of Florence)

Derived terms

• Floransalı