- blómstr
- (-rs), m. = blóm (allan akrsins blómstr).* * *rs, m. bloom, blossom; allan akrsins blómstr, Stj. 29; sætan b., Sks. 630 B, 499; ‘flos’ is rendered by b., Stj. (pref.): in writers since the Reformation always neut.; allt eins og blómstrið eina, and glóandi blómstrið frítt, Hallgrímr, Snót 45; blóm and blómstr are synonymous, but blómi in common usage is metaph. = prosperity.
An Icelandic-English dictionary. Richard Cleasby and Gudbrand Vigfusson. 1874.