florescence

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*bʰleh₃-“flower, blossom”
2. Proto-Italic · derived from*flōs
3. Latin · derived fromflorēscō
4. English todayflorescence

From Latin florēscō, from flōreō (“to bloom, flower”) + -ēscō, from flōs (“flower”), from Proto-Italic *flōs, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“flower, blossom”), from *bʰel- (“to bloom”), as if through the form flōrēscentia.

Words from the same roots