Flora

From Latin Flōra (Roman goddess of flowers).

• IPA^(key): /ˈflɔːɹə/

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• Homophone: flora
• Rhymes: -ɔːɹə

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 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.

• flora

• FoLAR, folar

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• IPA^(key): [ˈflora]

Flora m anim (female equivalent Florová)

1. a male surname

• “Flora”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)

From Latin Flōra.

• IPA^(key): /flɔ.ʁa/

Flora f

1. a female given name from Latin, a Latinate variant of Flore

• flore

• frôla

From Latin Flōra.

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Flora f (genitive Flora, plural Floren)

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

Flora

1. (Roman mythology) Flora
2. a female given name from Latin, masculine equivalent Florian

• “Flora”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)

From Latin Flōra.

• IPA^(key): /ˈflɔ.ra/
• Rhymes: -ɔra
• Hyphenation: Flò‧ra

Flora f

1. (Roman mythology) the goddess of flowers, Flora
2. a female given name from Latin

• flora

• farlo

From Proto-Italic *Flōzā, from an ā-thematic extension of *flōs (“flower”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰléh₃s ~ *bʰl̥h₃s-és, from *bʰleh₃- (“bloom, flower”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfɫoː.ra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈflɔː.ra]

Flōra f (genitive Flōrae); first declension

1. (Roman mythology) Flora, the goddess of flowers.

First-declension noun, singular only.

• → English: Flora
• French: Flore, Flora
• → German: Flora
• Italian: Flora
• Portuguese: Flora
• Spanish: Flora
  • → Tagalog: Flora

• “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.

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.

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.

Learned borrowing from Latin Flōra.

• IPA^(key): /ˈflɔ.ra/
• Rhymes: -ɔra
• Syllabification: Flo‧ra
• Homophone: flora

Flora f

1. (countable) a female given name from Latin, equivalent to English Flora
2. (uncountable, Roman mythology) Flora (goddess of flowers)

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

Learned borrowing from Latin Flōra.

• Homophone: flora
• Hyphenation: Flo‧ra

Flora f

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

• flora

From Latin Flōra.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfloɾa/ [ˈflo.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -oɾa
• Syllabification: Flo‧ra

Flora f

1. (Roman mythology) Flora
2. a female given name from Latin

• → Tagalog: Flora

Borrowed from Spanish Flora, from Latin Flōra.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈfloɾa/ [ˈfloː.ɾɐ]
  • IPA^(key): (with nativization) /ˈploɾa/ [ˈploː.ɾɐ]
• Rhymes: -oɾa
• Syllabification: Flo‧ra

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