Definition of Florio

1. Noun. English lexicographer remembered for his Italian and English dictionary (1553-1625).

Exact synonyms: John Florio
Generic synonyms: Lexicographer, Lexicologist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Florio

Florida beans
Florida flambe
Florida flambes
Florida gallinule
Florida keys
Florida pompano
Florida room
Florida rooms
Florida smoothhound
Florida strangler fig
Florida strap fern
Florida water rat
Florida yew
Floridian
Floridians
Florio
Florrie
Florschutz
Florschutz' formula
Flory
Floréal
Flossie
Flossy
Flourens
Flourens' theory
Flourite objectives
Flower's bone
Flower's dental index
Floy
Floyd

Literary usage of Florio

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"After 1620 florio resided at Fulham, and he died there in August or September ... florio desired these books and manuscripts to be placed in Pembroke's ..."

2. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"Fr. pine) ; rilla (florio) ... rozzone (florio); San Cresci-in-Mano (florio : ' because it grows in one's hand ') ... (florio : ' a great swag- ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"His father, Michael Angelo florio, was pastor of an Italian Protestant congregation ... Three years later florio was admitted a member of Magdalen College, ..."

4. Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History Critical and by Robert Chambers, David Patrick (1901)
"John florio, the translator of Montaigne, was born in London about 1553. ... John florio appears as a private tutor in foreign languages at Oxford about ..."

5. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"Having projected teeth. A, GOW. (1) Wild myrtle. florio, p. 4. (2) Let us go. Suffolk. An abbreviation of j« t plur. ..."

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