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florilegium

noun
/ˌflɔɹəˈliːdʒi.əm/UK

Etymology

Borrowed from Renaissance Latin flōrilegium, calque of Ancient Greek ἀνθολογία (anthología, “flower-gathering”) (compare English anthology), so called because flowers were used as symbols of the finer sensibility of literature.

  1. derived from ἀνθολογία
  2. borrowed from flōrilegium

Definitions

  1. A collection of flowers.

  2. An anthology, particularly of excerpts from larger works.

  3. A patristic anthology.

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