# Flora
## English
### Etymology

From Latin Flōra (Roman goddess of flowers).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈflɔːɹə/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Homophone: flora
* Rhymes: -ɔːɹə

### Proper noun

Flora
* (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.
* (astronomy) 8 Flora, a main-belt asteroid.
* 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, […]
* A surname.
* A municipality of Norway.
* A city in Illinois.
* A resort in Suriname.
* A municipality of the Philippines.
* A town in Indiana; named for founder John Flora.
* A town in Mississippi; named for early resident Flora Mann Jones.
* A village in Norway.

#### Related terms

* flora

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* FoLAR, folar

## Czech
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈflora]

### Proper noun

Flora m anim (female equivalent Florová)
* a male surname

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “Flora”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)

## French
### Etymology

From Latin Flōra.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /flɔ.ʁa/

### Proper noun

Flora f
* a female given name from Latin, a Latinate variant of Flore

#### Related terms

* flore

### Anagrams

* frôla

## German
### Etymology

From Latin Flōra.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Austria):(file)
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

Flora f (genitive Flora, plural Floren)
* (botany) flora (plants as a group; microorganisms)

#### Derived terms

* Alpenflora
* Bakterienflora
* Darmflora
* Gebirgsflora
* Inselflora
* Landflora
* Meeresflora
* Nasenflora
* Normalflora
* Scheidenflora
* Steppenflora
* Sumpfflora
* Vaginalflora
* Waldflora

### Proper noun

Flora
* (Roman mythology) Flora
* a female given name from Latin, masculine equivalent Florian

### Further reading

* “Flora” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin Flōra.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈflɔ.ra/
* Rhymes: -ɔra
* Hyphenation: Flò‧ra

### Proper noun

Flora f
* (Roman mythology) the goddess of flowers, Flora
* a female given name from Latin

#### Related terms

* flora

### Anagrams

* farlo

## Latin
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈfloː.ra/, [ˈfɫ̪oːrä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈflo.ra/, [ˈflɔːrä]

### Proper noun

Flōra f (genitive Flōrae); first declension
* (Roman mythology) Flora, the goddess of flowers.

#### Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

#### Derived terms

* Flōrālia
* Flōrālicius
* Flōrālis
* Flōrālitius
* Flōrius

#### Descendants

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

### 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 Bokmål
### Proper noun

Flora
* 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.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Proper noun

Flora
* 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.

## Polish
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Flōra.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈflɔ.ra/
* Rhymes: -ɔra
* Syllabification: Flo‧ra
* Homophone: flora

### Proper noun

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

#### Declension
### Further reading

* Flora in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* Flora in PWN's encyclopedia

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Flōra.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈflɔ.ɾɐ/
* Homophone: flora
* Hyphenation: Flo‧ra

### Proper noun

Flora f
* a female given name from Latin, equivalent to English Flora
* (Roman mythology) Flora (goddess of nature)

#### Related terms

* flora

## Spanish
### Etymology

From Latin Flōra.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfloɾa/ [ˈflo.ɾa]
* Rhymes: -oɾa
* Syllabification: Flo‧ra

### Proper noun

Flora f
* (Roman mythology) Flora
* a female given name from Latin

#### Related terms

* flora

#### Descendants

* → Tagalog: Flora

## Tagalog
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Flora, from Latin Flōra.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈfloɾa/ [ˈfloː.ɾɐ]
** IPA: (more native-sounding) /ˈploɾa/ [ˈploː.ɾɐ]
* Rhymes: -oɾa
* Syllabification: Flo‧ra

### Proper noun

Flora (Baybayin spelling ᜉ᜔ᜎᜓᜇ)
* a female given name from Spanish, equivalent to English Flora
* (Roman mythology) Flora (goddess of flowers)
* A municipality of Apayao, Philippines