florilegium

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˌflɔɹəˈliːdʒi.əm/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A collection of flowers.
    — Rich owners of private gardens commissioned large-format florilegiums to immortalize their personal taste and power of acquisition, and the drawn pages burned with the urgency and excitement of explaining every plant’s form, color, and beauty.
  2. An anthology, particularly of excerpts from larger works.
  3. A patristic anthology.

词形变化

florilegia plural florilegiums plural

词源

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.
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