Florentia

See also: florentia

Latin

Etymology

From flōrēns (“flowering”) +‎ -ia (“forming place names”).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Flōrentia f sg (genitive Flōrentiae); first declension

  1. Florence (a city in Italy)

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Flōrentia
Genitive Flōrentiae
Dative Flōrentiae
Accusative Flōrentiam
Ablative Flōrentiā
Vocative Flōrentia
Locative Flōrentiae

Descendants
  • Gallo-Italic
    • Emilian: Fiuränza
    • Ligurian: Firense
    • Lombard: Firenz
    • Piedmontese: Firense
  • Italo-Dalmatian
    • Corsican: Fiurenza
    • Neapolitan: Sciorenza
    • Old Italian: Fiorenza
      • Italian: Firenze (see there for further descendants)
    • Sicilian: Ciurenzi, Ciurenza
  • Old French:
    • French: Florence (see there for further descendants)
    • Norman: Fleurenche
    • Picard: Florinche, Fleurinche
  • Sardinian: Firentze, Frorentzia
  • Venetian: Firense
  • West Iberian
  • → Armenian: Ֆլորենցիա (Florencʻia) (later reinforced by Russian Флоре́нция (Floréncija))
  • → Greek: Φλωρεντία (Florentía)
  • → Romanian: Florența (inflenced by French Florence)
  • → Russian: Флоре́нция (Floréncija)

References
  • “Florentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Florentia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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