Firenze
Finnish
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian, inherited from Latin Flōrentia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfirentse/, [ˈfire̞nts̠e̞]
- Rhymes: -irentse
- Syllabification(key): Fi‧ren‧ze
Proper noun
Firenze
- Florence (the capital city of Tuscany, Italy)
- Florence (a metropolitan city of Tuscany, Italy)
Declension
| Inflection of Firenze (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | Firenze | — | |
| genitive | Firenzen | — | |
| partitive | Firenzeä | — | |
| illative | Firenzeen | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Firenze | — | |
| accusative | nom. | Firenze | — |
| gen. | Firenzen | ||
| genitive | Firenzen | — | |
| partitive | Firenzeä | — | |
| inessive | Firenzessä | — | |
| elative | Firenzestä | — | |
| illative | Firenzeen | — | |
| adessive | Firenzellä | — | |
| ablative | Firenzeltä | — | |
| allative | Firenzelle | — | |
| essive | Firenzenä | — | |
| translative | Firenzeksi | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| abessive | Firenzettä | — | |
| comitative | — | — | |
| Possessive forms of Firenze (type nalle) | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | singular | plural |
| 1st person | Firenzeni | Firenzemme |
| 2nd person | Firenzesi | Firenzenne |
| 3rd person | Firenzensä | |
Derived terms
- firenzeläinen
Italian
Etymology
From Old Italian Fiorenze, from Latin Flōrentiae, locative of Flōrentia. Cf. the alternative obsolete form Fiorenza, from the accusative.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fiˈrɛn.t͡se/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɛntse
- Hyphenation: Fi‧rèn‧ze
Proper noun
Firenze f
- Florence (the capital city of Tuscany, Italy)
- 1348, Giovanni Villani, “Libro primo [First Book]”, in Nuova Cronica [New Chronicle], published 1991, section 1:
- Con ciò sia cosa che per gli nostri antichi Fiorentini poche e nonn-ordinate memorie si truovino di fatti passati della nostra città di Firenze, […] , io Giovanni cittadino di Firenze, considerando la nobiltà e grandezza della nostra città a’ nostri presenti tempi, mi pare che si convegna di raccontare e fare memoria dell’origine e cominciamento di così famosa città
- Since few and disorderly memories are found, among our oldest Florentines, of past events of our city Florence, I – Giovanni, citizen of Florence –, considering our city's nobility and greatness at the present time, believe it's appropriate to tell and remember the origin and the beginning of such a famous city.
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- Florence (a metropolitan city of Tuscany, Italy)
- the letter F in the Italian spelling alphabet
Related terms
- fiore
- fiorente
- fiorentino
- Fiorenza
- Fiorenzo
Descendants
- → Danish: Firenze
- → Finnish: Firenze
- → Japanese: フィレンツェ (Firentse)
- → Korean: 피렌체 (Pirenche)
Anagrams
- zinefre