Florence

Florence (a city and comune, the capital of the Metropolitan City of Florence and the region of Tuscany, Italy); Florence (a metropolitan city of Tuscany, established in 2015; in full, the Metropolitan City of Florence); a female given name from Latin, equivalent to English Florence, feminine form of the saint's name Florent

Related: à la florentine, baiser florentin, florentin, Florentin

Etymology tree Latin flōrens Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Latin Flōrentia Middle French Florence French Florence Inherited from Middle French Florence, from Latin Flōrentia, from flōrens (“flowering”) + -ia (suffix forming place names).

a male given name from Latin, archaic form of Florent

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Etymology tree Latin Flōrentius Middle French Florence French Florence Inherited from Middle French Florence, from Latin Flōrentius. Compare French Maxence m, from Latin Maxentius.