Florida

Etymology

From Spanish, a shortening of either la Florida (“the flowery one”) or Pascua Florida ("flowery Easter").^[1] It is the oldest surviving European-given place-name in the US.^[2][1]

Pronunciation

• (Boston, Received Pronunciation) enPR: flŏrʹ-ĭ-də, IPA^(key): /ˈflɒɹɪdə/
• (Canada, General American) enPR: flôrʹ-ĭ-də, IPA^(key): /ˈflɔɹɪdə/
• (Southeastern Michigan) [flɔɹdə]

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• (NYC), (Philadelphia) enPR: flärʹ-ĭ-də, IPA^(key): /ˈflɑɹɪdə/

Proper noun

Florida

1. The southeasternmost state of the United States of America. Capital: Tallahassee; largest city: Jacksonville.
   • 2015 March 22, John Oliver, “Municipal Violations”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 2, episode 7, HBO:

     In 2012 in Florida, a staggering 88% of all license suspensions were due to failure to comply with summons or fines, which is insane. It also leaves only 12% for Florida’s other most common violations: accidentally taking your golf cart on the freeway, feeding meth to an alligator, feeding an alligator to a meth dealer, and being an alligator meth dealer. Florida!

   • 2015 June 7, John Oliver, “Bail”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 2, episode 16, HBO:

     An-And pretrial service programs have succeeded around the country in places ranging from Oregon to Florida. And it is a truly frightening state of affairs when Florida is a model for progressive change! It shouldn’t be a judicial example for anything! Did you know, by the way, that under Florida law, if you possess over 5 g of meth, you can marry it. That’s a fact, that’s a legal fact! That’s an actual photo that ran in a newspaper’s wedding section in Florida!

   • 2015 July 19, John Oliver, “Food Waste”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 2, episode 21, HBO:

     Finally this week: North Korea, Earth’s Florida.

   • 2015 August 2, John Oliver, “Washington DC Statehood”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 2, episode 23, HBO:

     And if you’re totally convinced that there should be just 50 states, well then let’s all kick out Florida ’cause no one thinks they’re great. Oh yes, let’s all kick out Florida ’cause no one thinks they’re great. No one thinks they’re great.

   • 2017 February 19, John Oliver, “Putin”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 4, episode 2, HBO:

     Magnificent! That story contains homemade explosives, a big box store, an idiotic get-rich-quick scheme, and felony charges. If it somehow also involved a snake on meth, you’d have full-on Florida Bingo right there.

2. The peninsula which makes up most of the state.

See also

• Appendix:Place names in Florida

References

Further reading

• Florida on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Proper noun

Florida f

1. Florida

Proper noun

Florida f

1. Florida

Further reading

• Florida in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu

Etymology

Borrowed from English Florida.

Proper noun

Florida (genitive Floridas)

1. Florida

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈflɔ.ri.da/, /floˈri.da/
• Rhymes: -ɔrida, -ida
• Hyphenation: Flò‧ri‧da, Flo‧rì‧da

Proper noun

Florida f

1. Florida

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flǒrida/
• Hyphenation: Flo‧ri‧da

Proper noun

Flòrida f (Cyrillic spelling Фло̀рида)

1. Florida (U.S. state)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈflo.ri.da/
• Hyphenation: Flo‧ri‧da

Proper noun

Florida f (genitive Floridy) declension pattern žena

1. Florida (U.S. state)

References

• Florida in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Proper noun

Florida f

1. Florida

See also

• Florida on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es