florilegium : etymology
This Week's Word: florilegiumAWAD archive date: Thu Feb 10 00:04:27 EST 2000
florilegium
[Neo-Latin florilegium, equivalent to Latin flori- + leg(ere) to gather + -ium, on the model of spicilegium gleaning; a calque of Greek anthologia,
anthology]
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florilegium
[Neo-Latin florilegium, equivalent to Latin flori- + leg(ere) to gather + -ium, on the model of spicilegium gleaning; a calque of Greek anthologia,
anthology]
The current theme: words about words.