Florentine
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- noun
- /flɔːrənˈtiːn/
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florentino
- Michelangelo, the Florentine, is he here?
And the Italians discover they're a nation and they unify instead of being, you know, Florentines and Romans and, and you know, Sicilians.
- And the Italians discover they're a nation and they unify instead of being, you know, Florentines and Romans and, and you know, Sicilians.
- They've been fighting Venetians, they have been fighting Florentines, they've been fighting almost every type of Italians and they've been fighting the the Ottomans.
Examples
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I'm a Florentine and a Christian painting in this century.
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There were a couple of ads for this in the Florentine as well.
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A private room at the Florentine.
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His other mother's husband was Florentine too.
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But imagine the social drama and tensions involved when a Florentine asked someone to let him stand godfather to his child.
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You're not a Florentine.
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For all of this, Florentines saw themselves as the proper heirs of this classical tradition, since by legend their lands had been a Roman colony.
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Godparents and coparents formed part of a Florentine's social safety net of parenti, amici, vicini—relatives, friends, neighbors.
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As a proud Florentine, she shared stories about the rich history of her city.
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The Florentine artist created stunning sculptures that captured the essence of the Renaissance.
Synonyms
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A person from Italy or with family from Italy
Compounds
A plant from southern Europe with large white flowers, lavender tips, and a fragrant underground stem
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Florentine names a person from Florence. The city's old Latin name Florentia meant 'flowering' from the root flor- ('flower'), so a Florentine is someone from the 'flowering' city.