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| Gender | Feminine |
|---|---|
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Latin |
| Meaning | flower |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Fflur, Fionnaghal, Fionnuala, Fiore, Fiorenza, Fleur, Flo, Flor, Flòraidh, Flore, Florence, Florencia, Florentina, Florette, Florinda, Florrie, Flossie |
Flora is a feminine given name of Latin origin meaning flower, ultimately derived from the Latin word flos, which had the genitive florus. Flora was a fertility goddess of flowers and springtime in Ancient Rome.
Feminine variants include Florrie or its Scottish Gaelic equivalent Flòraidh. Flora was also used as an English translation for the etymologically unrelated Scottish Gaelic Fionnaghal, a variant of the Irish Gaelic name Fionnuala.[1]
Other feminine variants include the Dutch Floor and Floortje, the English and French Florence, the French Fleur, Flore, and Florette, the Hungarian Flóra, the Italian Fiore and Fiorenza, the Occitan Flòra, the Sami Florá, the Portuguese and Spanish Flor and Florinda, the Spanish Florencia, and the Portuguese Florência, and the Welsh Fflur.[2]
- ^ Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006). Oxford Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press. p. 101. ISBN 0-19-861060-2.
- ^ Campbell, Mike. "The name Flora". Behind the Name.