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Definition: Florentine |
FlorentineAdjective1. Of or relating to or characteristic of the city of Florence; "Florentine art". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Florentine" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Industry | Ring. . . . . --in or following a style of art originated in Florence during the Renaissance and noted for fine drawing, idealized portrayal, and humanist content. . . Source: European Union. (references) |
Personal Care & Hotels | A lightweight silk taffeta of inferior quality. . . It was manufactured at Lyons, France, during the XVIIIth century and it is believed to have been produced originally in Florence, Italy. . . . Also calle d --. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Crosswords: Florentine |
| English words defined with "Florentine": Americus Vespucius, Amerigo Vespucci ♦ Cimabue ♦ Donatello, Donato di Betto Bardi ♦ Florentine mosaic ♦ Giotto, Giotto di Bondone, Giovanni Cimabue, Giovanni da Verrazano, Giovanni da Verrazzano ♦ Michelangelo, Michelangelo Buonarroti ♦ orris, orrisroot ♦ Pietra dura ♦ Verrazano, Verrazzano, Vespucci. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Florentine": Bardo de Bardi, BEATRICE ♦ Cassio ♦ Della Cruscans ♦ Italian Architecture. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Telling people that she dreams about me being castrated florentine is healthy (The Ref; writing credit: Marie Weiss and Richard LaGravenese. Starring Denis Leary as Gus, Judy Davis as Caroline Chasseur and Kevin Spacey as Lloyd Chasseur.) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Florentine (1937) The Florentine Dagger (1935) Florentine 1995 (1997) La Florentine (1991) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | National Gallery of Art. Florentine room in National Gallery. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Florentine" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "Florentine" is used about 66 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 83.33% | 55 | 45,713 |
| Noun (singular) | 12.12% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.55% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 66 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Florentine" 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 |
| Florentine | Last name | 170 | 43,802 |
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Expressions using "Florentine": florentine iris ♦ Florentine mosaic. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Florentine": florentine-mantuan. | |
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| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "Florentine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | fiorentinas, fiorentin. (various references) | |
Arabic | مزهر (bed, blooming, florid, lute). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | флорентински, флорентинец, вид копринен плат. (various references) | |
Chinese | 佛罗伦丁. (various references) | |
Czech | obyvatel florence. (various references) | |
French | florentin, florence (Florence, florescence), fini florentin. (various references) | |
German | florentinisch. (various references) | |
Hungarian | firenzei. (various references) | |
Italian | fiorentino. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | orentineflay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | florentino, tipo de seda entrançada. (various references) | |
Romanian | florentin. (various references) | |
Russian | флорентийский, флорентинец. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | osoba iz firence, koji pripada firenci. (various references) | |
Spanish | florentino. (various references) | |
Swedish | florentinsk, florentinare. (various references) | |
Turkish | floransa'ya ait, floransalı, floransa. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | флорентієць, флорентійський. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Florentine" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fiorentini, Florentino, Fluoxetine. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-f-i-l-n-n-o-r-t" | |
-1 letter: frontline. | |
-2 letters: nonelite. | |
-3 letters: eloiner, enteron, fertile, inferno, interne, intoner, lenient, leonine, loftier, nonlife, oftener, olefine, retinol, tenoner, ternion, trefoil. | |
-4 letters: entire, entoil, etoile, feline, fennel, ferine, ferlie, filter, floret, florin, forint, intern, intone, intron, lefter, lenten, liefer, lierne, lifter, linnet, linter, lofter, loiter, neroli, norite, olefin, oleine, online, orient, refelt, refile, refine, reflet. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-f-i-l-n-n-o-r-t" | |
+2 letters: conferential. | |
+3 letters: nonfilterable, nonreflecting. | |
+4 letters: antireflection, fortunetelling, nonforfeitable. | |
+5 letters: fortunetellings, nonpreferential, overconfidently. | |
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