Flora

See also: flora and flóra

English

Goddess Flora
Flora astronomical symbol

Etymology

From Latin Flōra (“Flowers, Spring”)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈflɔːɹə/
  • Homophone: flora
  • Rhymes: -ɔːɹə

Proper noun

Flora

  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.
    • 1933 Eleanor Farjeon, Over the Garden Wall, Faber and Faber 1933, page 91 ("Girls' Names")
      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 place name
    1. a city in Illinois
    2. a town in Indiana
    3. a town in Mississippi
    4. a municipality in Norway
    5. a municipality in Apayao, the Philippines
    6. a resort in Suriname

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French

Proper noun

Flora

  1. A female given name, a latinate variant of Flore.

Anagrams

German

Pronunciation

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Noun

Flora f (genitive Flora, plural Floren)

  1. flora (plants as a group; microorganisms)

Proper noun

Flora

  1. (Roman mythology) Flora
  2. A female given name.

Italian

Proper noun

Flora f

  1. (Roman mythology) The goddess of flowers, Flora.
  2. A female given name.

Anagrams

Latin

Flōra

Etymology

From flōs (“blossom”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfloː.ra/, [ˈfɫoː.ra]

Proper noun

Flōra f (genitive Flōrae); first declension

  1. (Roman mythology) the goddess of flowers.

Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative Flōra Flōrae
genitive Flōrae Flōrārum
dative Flōrae Flōrīs
accusative Flōram Flōrās
ablative Flōrā Flōrīs
vocative Flōra Flōrae

Derived terms

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

Proper noun

Flora

  1. A municipality in Sogn og Fjordane, Norway

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Flora f

  1. A female given name, equivalent to English Flora
  2. (Roman mythology) Flora (goddess of nature)

Spanish

Proper noun

Flora f

  1. (Roman mythology) Flora
  2. A female given name.
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