Translingual

Etymology

Latin rosa ‎(“rose”)

Proper noun

Rosa f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Rosaceae – the roses.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, eurosids I - clades; Rosales - order; Rosaceae - family; Rosoideae – subfamily; Roseae – tribe

Hyponyms

• (genus): Rosa subg. Hulthemia, Rosa subg. Hesperhodos, Rosa subg. Platyrhodon, Rosa subg. Rosa – subgenera
  • Rosa pendulina – type species; Rosa canina, Rosa multiflora, Rosa rugosa – selected species

English

Proper noun

Rosa

1. A female given name; a Latinized variant of Rose.

Translations

Anagrams

• oars
• soar
• sora, Sora, SORA

Danish

Proper noun

Rosa

1. A female given name, cognate to Rose.

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʀoːza/

Noun

Rosa

1. pink (color)

Proper noun

Rosa

1. A female given name, cognate to Rose.

Related terms

• Rose, Rosemarie

See also

Italian

Proper noun

Rosa f

1. A female given name, cognate to Rose.

Anagrams

• arso
• orsa
• raso, rasò
• sarò

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɔ.zɐ/
• Homophone: rosa

Proper noun

Rosa f

1. A female given name, equivalent to English Rose

Proper noun

Rosa m f

1. A surname​.

Spanish

Proper noun

Rosa f

1. A female given name, cognate to Rose.

Swedish

Proper noun

Rosa

1. A female given name, cognate to Rose.

Related terms

• Rose-Marie, Ros-Mari, Ros-Marie

English

Verb

rosa ‎(third-person singular simple present rosas, present participle rosaing, simple past and past participle rosaed)

1. (slang, Australia) to hide, vanish, shadow

   Weren't we meant to have dinner with Jane?

   No, she unfortunately had to rosa.

Noun

rosa ‎(plural rosas)

1. (slang, Australia) no-show, someone who does not show up as expected

   Every time we organise to have dinner, she never turns up.

   I know, she is such a rosa.

Asturian

Noun

rosa f ‎(plural roses)

1. rose (flower)

Noun

rosa m ‎(plural roses)

1. rose (colour)

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin rosa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔzə/

Noun

rosa f ‎(plural roses)

1. rose

Adjective

rosa m, f ‎(masculine and feminine plural roses)

1. pink

See also

Cebuano

Etymology

From Spanish rosa, from Latin rosa, probably from Ancient Greek ῥόδον ‎(rhódon).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ro‧sa

Noun

rosa

1. A rose; a woody perennial flowering plant of the genus Rosa.
2. The color pink.

Classical Nahuatl

Etymology

From Spanish rosa, from Latin rosa.

Noun

rosa

1. Rose.
   • 1555, Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca vn vocabulario en la lengua Castellana y Mexicana

     Flor o roſa de caſtilla. caſtillan xuchitl. Roſa.

Synonyms

• Caxtillan xochitl

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *rosa.

Noun

rosa f

1. dew

Declension

Galician

Noun

rosa f ‎(plural rosas)

1. rose (flower)
2. (by extension) any flower
3. the color rose, a pink

Derived terms

• rosa dos ventos

See also

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʁoːza/
• Hyphenation: ro‧sa

Adjective

rosa ‎(comparative rosaner, superlative am rosasten or am rosansten)

1. coloured in a pale shade of pink

Usage notes

• The adjective is usually treated as invariable in the formal standard language, thus neither declined forms nor comparation forms are used.
• rosa also has normal inflected forms. An -n- is then infixed before (vocalic) endings. Compare the same in lila.

Declension

Inflected forms (with infixed -n-):

See also

• pink (used in German for stronger shades only)

Irish

Noun

rosa m

1. genitive singular of ros
2. nominative plural of ros

Italian

Rosa - flower

Rosa - colour

Etymology 1

From Latin rosa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔza/, [ˈr̺ɔː.za]
• Rhymes: -ɔza
• Hyphenation: rò‧sa

Noun

rosa f ‎(plural rose)

1. rose (flower)
2. pink (color)
3. shortlist
4. (heraldry) rose
5. (sports) team members

Adjective

rosa ‎(invariable)

1. pink
2. romantic (of movies, books, etc)
3. gossip (attributive; of news, magazines, etc)

Related terms

• rosacee
• rosa canina
• rosa dei venti
• rosaio
• rosato
• roseo
• roseto
• rosetta

See also

Etymology 2

Past participle of rodere

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrosa/, [ˈroː.sa]
• Rhymes: -osa
• Hyphenation: ró‧sa

Participle

rosa

1. feminine singular of roso

Anagrams

• arso, orsa, raso, rasò, sarò

Latin

rosa alba (a white rose)

Etymology 1

Might be derived from Ancient Greek ῥόδον ‎(rhódon), but some of the details remain mysterious.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈro.sa/, [ˈrɔ.sa]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈro.za/, [ˈrɔː.za]

Noun

rosa f ‎(genitive rosae); first declension

1. a rose
   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgicon 4.267

     Proderit et tunsum gallae admiscere saporem / arentesque rosas […]

     It's good too to blend a taste of pounded oak-apples / and dry rose leaves […]

   • 61 CE – c. 112 CE, Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 5

     Inde etiam rosas effert, umbrarumque frigus non ingrato sole distinguit. Finito vario illo multiplicique curvamine recto limiti redditur nec huic uni, nam viae plures intercedentibus buxis dividuntur.^[1][2]

     Farther on, there are roses too along the path, and the cool shade is pleasantly alternated with sunshine. Having passed through these manifold winding alleys, the path resumes a straight course, and at the same time divides into several tracks, separated by box hedges.^[3][4]
     Even roses grow there, and the warmth of the sun is delightful as a change from the cool of the shade. When you come to the end of these various winding alleys, the boundary again runs straight, or should I say boundaries, for there are a number of paths with box shrubs between them.^[5]

2. (transferred sense, endearment) dear, rose, sweetheart, love; a word of endearment

   Mea rosa.‎ ― My love.

   Rosa!‎ ― Honey!

   Tu mihi rosa es.‎ ― You are my sweetheart.

Inflection

First declension.

Related terms

Descendants

Etymology 2

Inflected form of rōsus, participle of rōdō ‎(“gnaw, eat away”).

Pronunciation 1

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈroː.sa/

Participle

rōsa

1. nominative feminine singular of rōsus
2. nominative neuter plural of rōsus
3. accusative neuter plural of rōsus
4. vocative feminine singular of rōsus
5. vocative neuter plural of rōsus

Pronunciation 2

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈroː.saː/

Participle

rōsā

1. ablative feminine singular of rōsus

References

• rosa in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• rosa in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ROSA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “rosa”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

1. ↑ Pliny text, Latin version
2. ↑ Pliny text, Latin version 2
3. ↑ Pliny text, English translation 1
4. ↑ Pliny text, English translation 2]
5. ↑ Pliny text, alternative English translation]

Latvian

Noun

rosa f (4 declension)

1. activity, bustle, animation

Synonyms

• rosība
• rosme

Lower Sorbian

rosa na rožy

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *rosa, from Proto-Indo-European *Hroseh₂.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔsa/

Noun

rosa f ‎(diminutive roska)

1. dew ‎(“moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc.”)

Declension

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Latin rosa.

Adjective

rosa ‎(masculine rosaen, neuter rosat, not comparable)

1. pink

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Latin rosa

Adjective

rosa (indeclinable)

1. pink (colour)

Synonyms

• lyserød

Etymology 2

Noun

rosa (indeclinable (uncountable))

1. pink, rose (colour)

Etymology 3

Alternative forms

• rosen

Noun

rosa m, f

1. definite feminine singular of rose

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Latin rosa

Adjective

rosa (indeclinable)

1. pink (colour)

Etymology 2

Noun

rosa (indeclinable (uncountable))

1. pink, rose (colour)

Etymology 3

Noun

rosa f

1. definite singular of rose

Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin rosa, from Oscan, from Ancient Greek ῥόδον ‎(rhódon), from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥dʰo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔ.za/

Noun

rosa f

1. rose (flower)
   • 13th century, attributed to Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 10 (facsimile):

     Roſa das roſas. ⁊ fror / das frores. dona das donas. / ſeñor das ſennores.

     Rose of roses; And flower / of flowers. Woman of women; / Lady of ladies.

2. pink, rose (colour)
   • 13th century, attributed to Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 384 (facsimile):

     A terçeyra chamam roſa / por que e coor uermella.

     The third (colour) is called rose, / because it is a reddish colour.

Descendants

• Galician: rosa
• Portuguese: rosa

See also

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *rosa, from Proto-Indo-European *Hroseh₂.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔ.sa/

Noun

rosa f

1. dew

Declension

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese rosa, from Latin rosa ‎(“rose”), perhaps from Ancient Greek ῥόδον ‎(rhódon, “rose”), from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥dʰo.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɔ.zɐ/

Noun

rosa f (plural rosas)

1. rose (flower)

Derived terms

• rosa dos ventos
• rosal
• roseira
• roseiral

Related terms

• Rosa

Adjective

rosa ‎(plural rosa, comparable)

1. pink

Synonyms

• cor-de-rosa

Noun

rosa m (plural rosas)

1. pink (color)

Synonyms

• (color): cor-de-rosa

See also

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Puter, Vallader) rösa

Etymology

From Latin rosa.

Noun

rosa f (plural rosas)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) rose

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *rosa, from Proto-Indo-European *Hroseh₂.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rǒsa/
• Hyphenation: ro‧sa

Noun

ròsa f ‎(Cyrillic spelling ро̀са)

1. dew

Declension

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *rosa, from Proto-Indo-European *Hroseh₂.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔ̀ːsa/
• Tonal orthography: rósa

Noun

rôsa f ‎(genitive rôse or rosé, uncountable)

1. dew (moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc)

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin rosa.

Noun

rosa f ‎(plural rosas)

1. a rose
2. colour pink
3. (heraldry) rose

Related terms

• rosal

See also

Swedish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From a Romance language, likely via German.

Noun

rosa n

1. pink

Synonyms

• skär

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hrósa.

Verb

rosa

1. praise, commend

Antonyms

• risa

Synonyms

• prisa

Upper Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *rosa.

Noun

rosa f

1. dew