Florida
wiktionary
From Spanish florida(“flowery”), often referring to a place's abundance of flowers.
The state's name specifically is a shortening of la Florida(“the flowery one”) or Pascua Florida(“flowery Easter”). [1] It is the oldest surviving European-given place-name in the US. [2] [1]
The village in Orange County, New York was named in the 1760s from Latin flōrida(“flowery”). [3]
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Florida
U.S. state, formerly a Spanish colony, probably from Spanish Pascua florida, literally "flowering Easter," a Spanish name for Palm Sunday, and so named because the peninsula was discovered on that day (March 20, 1513) by the expedition of Spanish explorer Ponce de León. From Latin floridus "flowery, in bloom" (see florid). Related: Floridian (1580s as a noun, in reference to the natives; 1819 as an adjective).
