florilegium

American  

[flawr-uh-lee-jee-uhm, flohr-] / ˌflɔr əˈli dʒi əm, ˌfloʊr- /

noun

plural

florilegia

1. a collection of literary pieces; anthology.

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florilegium British  

/ ˌflɔːrɪˈliːdʒɪəm /

noun

1. (formerly) a lavishly illustrated book on flowers

2. rare an anthology

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Etymology

Origin of florilegium

1640–50; < New Latin flōrilegium, equivalent to Latin flōri- flori- + leg ( ere ) to gather + -ium -ium, on the model of spīcilegium gleaning; a calque of Greek anthología anthology

Example Sentences

It is a florilegium of invented academic articles, desert travelogues, music criticism, and miniature biographies of real and imagined adventurers, from a femme-fatale hotelier in Palmyra to a French researcher seduced by the Iranian Revolution.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 19, 2018

Its inaugural show, American Women Artists 1830-1930, consisted mainly of loans; but even so, except for some paintings by Cecilia Beaux, Romaine Brooks and, of course, O'Keeffe, it was a dull florilegium of derivative kitsch.

From Time Magazine Archive

This is the Balkan - a florilegium of contradictions within contraventions, the mawkish and the jaded, the charitable and the deleterious, the feckless and the bumptious, evanescent and exotic, a mystery wrapped in an enigma.

From Terrorists and Freedom Fighters by Vaknin, Samuel

Specimens of his apophthegms may be found in Diogenes Laertius and the florilegium of Stobaeus, while there are traces of his influence in Seneca.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various

A choice of old authors should be a florilegium, and not a botanist's hortus siccus, to which grasses are as important as the single shy blossom of a summer.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 06, April, 1858 by Various