What is the Latin word for nosegay?

The usual Latin words for “nosegay” are fasciculus, flōs, Serbia. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

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“nosegay” in Latin

fasciculusa small bundle or package (especially of letters or rolls); a bunch of flowers, nosegay; a computer file flōsflower, blossom; the best kind or part of something; the prime; best state of things SerbiaSerbia (a country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeastern Europe)

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

nosegay

fasciculus (florum). To make a nosegay, flores nectere (†): to smell a nosegay, fasciculum florum ad nares admovere: to give a nosegay to anybody to smell, or put it to anybody’s nose, fasciculum florum ad nares alicui admovere (Cic., Tusc., 3, 18, 43). Pliny has olfactorium and servia, both apparently in the sense of nosegay.

Quick answer

What is the Latin word for nosegay?: The usual Latin words for “nosegay” are fasciculus, flōs, Serbia. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.