florilegium

The story

1. Ancient Greek · derived fromἀνθολογία“flower-gathering”
2. Renaissance Latin · borrowed fromflōrilegium
3. English todayflorilegium

Borrowed from Renaissance Latin flōrilegium, calque of Ancient Greek ἀνθολογία (anthología, “flower-gathering”) (compare English anthology), so called because flowers were used as symbols of the finer sensibility of literature.

Words from the same roots