Flos = flower Flora was the Latin goddess of Flowers, not the word for flower.
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Third declension.
The Latin word for 'flower' is Flos. It's a masculine gender noun that also may mean 'blossom' and 'the best, the pride, the prime' of anything, but especially of youth. A diminutive form is 'flosculus', which means 'little flower'.
Flos (gen. floris). The Latin word for flower is flos. The botanical names for all flowers come from the Latin language. Some examples are Bellis perennis for daisy, Chamomilla recutita for chamomile and Gymnadenia conopsea for fragrant orchid.
An ancient Roman would use the term flos for any kind of flower, no matter where it happened to be growing. If you wanted to specify that it was growing wild rather than in a garden, you might say flos silvestris.
this is a flower of a field and a lily This is a flower field and a lily.
Flos caeli. With pronunciation marks, flōs caelī.
The Latin term for "Divine Flower" in the language of Old Rome is "Divinus Flos."
František Flos died in 1961.
František Flos was born in 1894.