Florus

See also: florus

Latin

Etymology

From flōrus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfɫoː.rʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈflɔː.rus]
• Hyphenation: Flō‧rus

Proper noun

Flōrus m sg (genitive Flōrī); second declension

1. a Roman cognomen, belonging to:
   1. Jūlius Flōrus (a celebrated orator of Gaul, a pupil of Portius Latrō)
   2. Flōrus (also Lūcius Annaeus, also Jūlius) (who compiled a brief history of Rome; he probably wrote in the time of Hadrian)
   3. Gessius Flōrus (procurator of Judaea in the reign of Nero)
   4. Jūlius Flōrus (a nobleman of the Treviri, a leader of revolt)

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Flōrus
genitive	Flōrī
dative	Flōrō
accusative	Flōrum
ablative	Flōrō
vocative	Flōre

Further reading

• “Florus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Florus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.