Florentine
pronunciation
How to pronounce Florentine in British English:
UK ['flɒrəntaɪn]
How to pronounce Florentine in American English:
US ['flɔrəntin]
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- Adjective:
- of or relating to or characteristic of the city of Florence
Word Origin
- Florentine (adj.)
- 1540s, literally "of or pertaining to the Italian city of Florence," from Latin Florentinus, from Florentia, the Roman name of the city (see Florence). Earliest reference in English is to a type of textile fabric. As a noun from 1590s.
Example
- 1. Known as the " portrait of dwarf morgante , " the subject was a court jester , part of the medici court in the florentine renaissance .
- 2. In answer , lawrence wrote in the margins of the letters and sent them to the florentine publisher to be typed into formal replies .
- 3. He also became increasingly active in florentine political affairs and , in 1295 , he joined the citizen 's government known as the " council of the hundred . "
- 4. The distinguished italian linguist tullio de mauro has estimated that at the time of unification , just 2.5 percent of the population spoke italian -- that is , the florentine vernacular that evolved from the works of dante and boccaccio .
- 5. After a long time of writing in latin , dante understood something very important , that florentine culture wasn 't only made up of the educated and wealthy , which were only a small part of the population , but also the poor hard laborers .