florilegium
Meanings
Plural: florilegia, florilegiums
Noun
- an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc.
- A collection of flowers.
- An anthology, particularly of excerpts from larger works.
- A patristic anthology.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from Renaissance Latin flōrilēgium, 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.
Synonyms
Scrabble Score: 17
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Words With Friends Score: 22
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