The story
- Italian · derived fromfiorino“little flower”
- Old French · derived fromflorin
- Middle English · inherited fromflorin
- English todayflorin
From Middle English florin, floren, from Old French florin, from Italian fiorino (“little flower”). Doublet of fiorino and forint.
Words from the same roots
Italianfiorino all →
forintfiorino
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.