florus

== Esperanto == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈflorus/ Rhymes: -orus Syllabification: flo‧rus === Verb === florus conditional of flori == Latin == === Etymology === From Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁-. Related to Latin flāvus (“yellow, blond”) and Old High German blāo (“blue, dark, grey”) (from Proto-Germanic *blēwaz). Originally a colour adjective (as in Romanian), it was later reinterpreted as a derivation from flōs or flōreō. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈfɫoː.rʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈflɔː.rus] === Adjective === flōrus (feminine flōra, neuter flōrum, comparative flōrior, superlative flōrissimus); first/second-declension adjective (rare) yellow, blond; flowering; shining, bright ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Descendants ==== >? Romanian: flor === References === “florus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “florus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "florus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “florus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “florus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “florus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray