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Definition: Florio |
FlorioNoun1. English lexicographer remembered for his Italian and English dictionary (1553-1625). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Florio" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
"Florio" is a common misspelling or typo for: flora, floral, floret, florid, florin, folio. |
Synonym: FlorioSynonym: John Florio (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Florio |
| Specialty definitions using "Florio": Blow-point ♦ Holophernes ♦ Rosalinde. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
John Florio | Praise the sea; on shore remain. |
| A good husband makes a good wife. | |
| Who has not served cannot command. | |
| Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born. | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Florio" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 97.37% of the time. "Florio" is used about 38 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 97.37% | 37 | 56,631 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.63% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 38 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Florio" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Florio | Last name | 1,000 | 9,701 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "Florio": John Florio. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "Florio": anti-florio. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
targa florio | 12 |
florio | 8 |
john florio | 4 |
florio tom | 4 |
exon florio | 3 |
florio kenny sarkisian | 2 |
florio jim | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-i-l-o-o-r" | |
-1 letter: floor, folio. | |
-2 letters: filo, foil, fool, loof, olio, roil, rolf, roof. | |
-3 letters: fil, fir, for, fro, loo, oil, rif. | |
-4 letters: if, li, lo, of, or. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-i-l-o-o-r" | |
+2 letters: aerofoil, coliform, flooring, oilproof, rooflike, roofline. | |
+3 letters: aerofoils, coliforms, colorific, floorings, fluorosis, fluorotic, folkloric, fooleries, foolisher, fossorial, frivolous, hydrofoil, portfolio, rooflines. | |
+4 letters: childproof, defoliator, floriation, folklorish, folklorist, frolicsome, hydrofoils, lightproof, microflora, moniliform, portfolios, reflooding, toploftier. | |
+5 letters: childproofs, counterfoil, defloration, defoliators, ferociously, floriations, floriferous, folklorists, foolhardier, foolhardily, foreclosing, forelocking, formulation, frivolously, frontolysis, loosestrife, macrofossil, microflorae, microfloral, microfloras, microfossil, overflowing, pilferproof, profiterole, trichlorfon, unfrivolous. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 6C 6F 72 69 6F |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .-.. --- .-. .. --- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01101100 01101111 01110010 01101001 01101111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F l o r i o |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 006C 006F 0072 0069 006F |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)407881847581 |
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