Latin

Adjective

roseus m ‎(feminine rosea, neuter roseum); first/second declension

1. pink, rose-colored, rosy
2. rose-, of or pertaining to roses ^syn.

   Roseae convalles.

   A valley filled with roses.

3. (transferred meaning, especially of parts of the body) any thing blooming with youth; rosy, ruddy, blooming
   • Catullus 80

     Quid dicam, Gelli, quare rosea ista labella

     hiberna fiant candidiora nive,

     mane domo cum exis et cum te octava quiete

     e molli longo suscitat hora die?

     nescio quid certest: an vere fama susurrat

     grandia te medii tenta vorare viri?

     sic certest: clamant Victoris rupta miselli

     ilia, et emulso labra notata sero

     What do you say, O Gellius, to why those rosy lips of yours

     become white as winter snow,

     in the morning when you go out of your house and when the eighth hour wakes you

     out of a nap from a long day?

     I do not know what is certain: can the rumor be true

     that you swallow the large thing men have in the middle?

     It must be so: They proclaim that poor Victor's member has burst,

     and the milky fluid is inscribed on your lips

Inflection

First/second declension.

Derived terms

• (substantive) rosāceum ‎(“the oil of roses”)

Synonyms

• (of roses): ^def. rosāceus

See also

• purpura

Descendants

• English: roseate
• French: rose
• Italian: roseo
• Romanian: roșu

References

• roseus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• roseus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “roseus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.