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flos
flos
Latin
flōrēs lūteī (yellow flowers)
Noun
flōs m (genitive flōris); third declension
- flower, blossom
- (figuratively) the best kind or part of something
- (figuratively) the prime; best state of things
- (figuratively) an ornament or embellishment
Inflection
Third declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | flōs | flōrēs |
| genitive | flōris | flōrum |
| dative | flōrī | flōribus |
| accusative | flōrem | flōrēs |
| ablative | flōre | flōribus |
| vocative | flōs | flōrēs |
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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, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “flos”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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
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(ambiguous) flowers of rhetoric; embellishments of style: lumina, flores dicendi (De Or. 3. 25. 96)
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(ambiguous) a glorious expanse of flowers: laetissimi flores (Verr. 4. 48. 107)
- the prime of youthful vigour: flos aetatis