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語源

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 古期英語 blōstm, blæd (“leaf”) (English blossom, blade).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈfɫoːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈflɔs]

名詞

flōs m (genitive flōris); third declension

1. flower, blossom
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.253–254:

     ferte deae flōrēs: gaudet flōrentibus herbīs haec dea

     Bring flowers for the goddess; this goddess takes pleasure in flowering plants.

   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 4.109–111:

     Invitent croceis [apes] halantes floribus horti
     Et custos furum atque avium cum falce saligna
     Hellespontiaci servet tutela Priapi.

     May gardens bright, fragrant with flower, lure them [the bees] and Hellespontian Priap with his willow scythe the robbing bee and the birds keep away.

2. (figuratively) the best kind or part of something
3. (figuratively) the prime; best state of things
4. (figuratively) an ornament or embellishment

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

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参照

• “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, 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)