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

  1. Florence (the capital city of Tuscany, Italy)
  2. 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


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/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛntse
  • Hyphenation: Fi‧rèn‧ze

Proper noun

Firenze f

  1. 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.
  2. Florence (a metropolitan city of Tuscany, Italy)
  3. the letter F in the Italian spelling alphabet

Descendants

  • Danish: Firenze
  • Finnish: Firenze
  • Japanese: フィレンツェ (Firentse)
  • Korean: 피렌체 (Pirenche)

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