# flos
## Latin
### Etymology

A root noun interpreted as an s-stem noun, from Proto-Italic *flōs, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃-s (“flower, blossom”), from *bʰleh₃- (“to bloom”). Cognates include Ancient Greek φύλλον (phúllon), Gothic 𐌱𐌻𐍉𐌼𐌰 (blōma) and Old English blōstm, blæd (“leaf”) (English blossom, blade).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /floːs/, [fɫ̪oːs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /flos/, [flɔs]

### Noun

flōs m (genitive flōris); third declension
* flower, blossom
** 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.253–254:ferte deae flōrēs: gaudet flōrentibus herbīs haec deaBring flowers for the goddess; this goddess takes pleasure in flowering plants.
* (figuratively) the best kind or part of something
* (figuratively) the prime; best state of things
* (figuratively) an ornament or embellishment

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* flōreō
* flōrētum
* flōreus
* flōricolor
* flōricomus
* *flōriculus (Vulgar Latin)
* flōrifer
* flōrigenus
* flōriger
* flōriparus
* flōrisapus
* flōrōsus
* flōrulentus
* flōrus
* flōscula
* flōsculus

#### Related terms

* Flōra
* flōrālia
* flōrēns
* flōrenter
* flōrentēs
* flōrēscens
* flōrēscō
* Flōrida
* flōridē
* flōridulus
* flōridus
* flōritiō
* Flōrus
* flōscellus
* flōsculē

#### Descendants

* Eastern Romance:
** Aromanian: floari
** Megleno-Romanian: floari
** Romanian: floare
* Italo-Romance:
** Corsican: fiore
** Italian: fiore
** Neapolitan: sciore
** Sicilian: ciuri
* North Italian:
** Gallo-Italic:
*** Ligurian: sciô
*** Lombard: fiuur, fiùu
*** Piedmontese: fior
*** Romagnol: fiôr
** Friulian: flôr
** Istriot: fiùr
** Romansch: flur, flura (Sursilvan), flour (Surmiran)
** Venetan: fior
*** →? Dalmatian: fiaur
* Gallo-Romance:
** Catalan: flor
** Franco-Provençal: fllor
** Gascon: hlor, ehlor, eslor
** Old French: flor (see there for further descendants)
** Old Occitan: flor
*** Occitan: flor
* Ibero-Romance:
** Aragonese: flor
** Asturian: flor
** Extremaduran: frol
** Mirandese: frol, flor
** Old Galician-Portuguese: flor, fror, frol, *chor
*** Fala: flor
*** Galician: flor, fror, frol, chor
*** Portuguese: flor, fror, frol (archaic or dialectal), flôr (obsolete), fulô (Northeast Brazil, eye dialect)
**** Kabuverdianu: flor
**** Papiamentu: flor
** Old Spanish: flor
*** Ladino: flor
*** Spanish: flor
**** → English: flor
* Borrowings:
** → Esperanto: floro
*** → Ido: floro
** → Interlingua: flor
** → Swedish: flor
** → Translingual: Flos
** → Volapük: flor

### References

* “flos”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “flos”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* flos in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* flos in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. the prime of youthful vigour: flos aetatis the perfume exhaled by flowers: odores, qui efflantur e floribus (ambiguous) flowers of rhetoric; embellishments of style: lumina, flores dicendi (De Or. 3. 25. 96) (ambiguous) a glorious expanse of flowers: laetissimi flores (Verr. 4. 48. 107)

## Swedish
### Alternative forms

* floss
* flous
* flouse

### Etymology

From Arabic فلوس (fulūs, “money”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fluːs/

### Noun

flos ?
* (slang) money

### References

* Slangopedia