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Florence is usually a feminine given name. It is derived from the French version of (Saint) Florentia , a Roman martyr under Diocletian . [ 1 ] The Latin florens, florentius means "blossoming", verb floreo , meaning "I blossom / I flower / I flourish".
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]
Florence (Italian: Firenze); Milan ... in that whilst the spelling is the same across languages, ... in Spanish as Costa de Marfil and in Italian as Costa d'Avorio.
This list of Irish-language given names shows Irish language given names, their anglicisations and/or English language equivalents.. Not all Irish given names have English equivalents, though most names have an anglicised form.
Florencia (given name), the Spanish variant of Florence; Spanish: Florencia, the Spanish name of the Italian city Florence; Florencia Airport, Bolivia; Florencia (street gang), a Chicago gang; Florencia 13, a Mexican-American street gang allied with the Sureños
In Hispanic America, this spelling convention was common among clergymen (e.g. Salvadoran Bishop Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez), and sanctioned by the Ley de Registro Civil (Civil Registry Law) of 1870, which required birth certificates to indicate the paternal and maternal surnames conjoined with y – thus, Felipe González y Márquez and ...
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The Spanish termination "-o" usually denotes the masculine and is normally changed to feminine by dropping the "-o" and adding "-a". The plural forms are usually "-os" and "-as", respectively. Adjectives ending -ish can be used as collective demonyms (e.g. the English, the Cornish).