Esperanto

Verb

florus

1. conditional of flori

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁-.^[1] Related to Latin flāvus ‎(“yellow, blond”) and Old High German blāo ‎(“blue, dark, grey”) (from Proto-Germanic *blēwaz).^[2] Originally a colour adjective (as in Romanian), it was later reinterpreted as a derivation from flōs or flōreō.

Adjective

florus

1. (rare) yellow, blond; flowering; shining, bright

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’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “florus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: 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 Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

1. ↑ cf. Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill – who does not mention flōrus – for flāvus and Proto-Germanic *blēwa-
2. ↑ Schrijver, Peter (1991), “IV.C.1.5.3 eh₃C”, in The Reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European Laryngeals in Latin, Amsterdam; Atlanta: Rodopi, page 147