English
Flo-Town
Blend of Florence + town
Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- ‘to bloom’
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Latin flōs ‘flower’
Latin flōrens ‘flowering, flourishing’
Latin Flōrentia
French Florence
English Florence
Proto-Celtic *dūnom ‘stronghold, rampart’
Proto-Germanic *tūną ‘fence, enclosure’
Proto-West Germanic *tūn ‘fence’
Old English tūn ‘an enclosed piece of ground’
Middle English toun ‘a town or city’
English town
Today it means
name Nickname for Florence: a city, the county seat of Florence County, South Carolina, United States.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Flo-Town