An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/Florin

by Friedrich Kluge

Florin, masculine, ‘florin,’ from late Middle High German flôrîn, masculine, ‘a gold coin first made in Florence, and stamped with a lily, the armorial bearings of the town’ (appeared about the middle of the 14th century); Middle Latin florinus, from flos, ‘flower’; Italian fiore.