florilegium
/ˌflɔɹəˈliːdʒi.əm/noun
florilegium is a noun meaning “A collection of flowers” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-O-R-I-L-E-G-I-U-M, and it appears about once in every 46 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of florilegium is florilegia or florilegiums.
What does florilegium mean?
noun
- 1
A collection of flowers.
- 2
An anthology, particularly of excerpts from larger works.
- 3
A patristic anthology.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce florilegium?
- UK /ˌflɔɹəˈliːdʒi.əm/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of florilegium
- florilegia plural
- florilegiums plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is florilegium?
Florilegium appears about once in every 46 million words in written English, the 209,386th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does florilegium come from?
Borrowed from Renaissance Latin flōrilegium, 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.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).