rosa

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Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin rosa.

Noun

rosa f (plural rosas)

1. rose (flower)

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “rosa”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin rosa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrosa/, [ˈro.sa]

Noun

rosa f (plural roses)

1. rose (flower)

Noun

rosa m (plural roses)

1. rose (colour)

Bavarian

Etymology

Cognate with German rosa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈroː.sɐ/

Adjective

rosa

1. pink (color/colour)

See also

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin rosa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈrɔ.zə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈrɔ.za]

Noun

rosa f (plural roses)

1. rose (a flower of the rose plant)

Derived terms

Related terms

• rosari

Noun

rosa m (plural roses)

1. rose (a purplish-red or pink colour)

Adjective

rosa (invariable)

1. pink (color/colour)

See also

Further reading

• “rosa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “rosa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “rosa” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “rosa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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. pink (color/colour)

Adjective

rosa

1. pink (color/colour)

Classical Nahuatl

Etymology

From Spanish rosa, from Latin rosa.

Noun

rosa

1. rose

   Synonym: Caxtillan xochitl

Czech

Etymology

From Old Czech rosa, from Proto-Slavic *rosà, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁róseh₂.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈrosa]
• Hyphenation: ro‧sa
• Rhymes: -osa

Noun

rosa f

1. dew

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• “rosa”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “rosa”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “rosa”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Galician

Etymology

From Latin rosa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔsa/ [ˈrɔ.s̺ɐ]
• Rhymes: -ɔsa

Noun

rosa f (plural rosas)

1. rose (flower)
   1. (by extension) any flower
2. pink (color/colour)

Derived terms

• rosa dos ventos

See also

Gallurese

Alternative forms

• irrosa

Etymology

From Latin rosa, of disputed origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔza/

Noun

rosa f (plural rosi)

1. rose (flower)

Derived terms

Related terms

• rusetu

Noun

rosa m (uncountable)

1. pink (color/colour)

Related terms

• rusulinu

Adjective

rosa (invariable)

1. pink (color/colour)

References

• Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes

German

Etymology

From Latin rosa.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

rosa (indeclinable) or (informal)
rosa (strong nominative masculine singular rosaner or (now rare) rosaer, comparative rosaner, superlative am rosansten or (now rare) am rosasten)

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 comparative forms are used.
• rosa also has normal inflected forms. An -n- is then infixed before (vocalic) endings. Additionally, it has also inflected forms without an infix. Compare the same in lila.

Declension

Descendants

• → Latvian: rozā (see there for further descendants)
• → Norwegian: rosa
• → Swedish: rosa
  • → Estonian: roosa
  • → Finnish: roosa

See also

• pink (used in German for stronger shades only)

Further reading

• “rosa” in Duden online
• “rosa” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Irish

Noun

rosa

1. inflection of ros (“headland”):
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/vocative/dative plural

Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin rosa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔ.za/
• Rhymes: -ɔza
• Hyphenation: rò‧sa

Noun

rosa f (plural rose, diminutive (uncommon) rosèlla or rosellìna (diminutive of diminutive) or rosétta or rosettìna (diminutive of diminutive))

1. (flower) rose
2. shortlist
3. (heraldry) rose
4. (sports, collective) team members

Noun

rosa m (invariable)

1. pink, rose (color/colour)

Adjective

rosa (invariable)

1. pink (color/colour)
2. romantic (of movies, books, etc.)
3. (relational) gossip (of news, magazines, etc.)

Related terms

See also

Etymology 2

Past participle of rodere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈro.za/, (traditional) /ˈro.sa/
• Rhymes: -oza, (traditional) -osa
• Hyphenation: ró‧sa

Participle

rosa f sg

1. feminine singular of roso

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈro.za/, (traditional) /ˈro.sa/
• Rhymes: -oza, (traditional) -osa
• Hyphenation: ró‧sa

Noun

rosa f (plural rose)

1. (obsolete) erosion

   Synonym: erosione

2. (Tuscany) itch, itching

   Synonyms: pizzicore, prurito

Anagrams

• Sora, arso, orsa, raso, rasò, sarò

Latin

Etymology 1

Probably derived from a variant of Ancient Greek ῥόδον (rhódon), but some of the details remain mysterious. Possibly via another Italic language like Oscan, or alternatively via the Aeolic version of ῥοδέᾱ (rhodéā, “rose-bush”) which would have been *ῥοζά (*rhozá).

Pronunciation

• rosa: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈro.sa/, [ˈrɔs̠ä]
• rosa: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈro.sa/, [ˈrɔːs̬ä]
• rosā: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈro.saː/, [ˈrɔs̠äː]
• rosā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈro.sa/, [ˈrɔːs̬ä]

Noun

rosa f (genitive rosae); first declension

1. rose (flower)
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.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Related terms

Descendants

Borrowings

Unsorted borrowings

Noun

rosā

1. ablative singular of rosa

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• rōsa: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈroː.sa/, [ˈroːs̠ä]
• rōsa: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈro.sa/, [ˈrɔːs̬ä]
• rōsā: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈroː.saː/, [ˈroːs̠äː]
• rōsā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈro.sa/, [ˈrɔːs̬ä]

Participle

rōsa

1. inflection of rōsus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Participle

rōsā

1. ablative feminine singular of rōsus

References

Further reading

• "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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• rosa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Latvian

Noun

rosa f (4 declension)

1. activity, bustle, animation

   Synonyms: rosība, rosme

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *rosà, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁róseh₂.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔsa/

Noun

rosa f (diminutive roska)

1. dew

Declension

Further reading

• Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “rosa”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
• Starosta, Manfred (1999) “rosa”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Latin rosa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʀoːza/

Adjective

rosa (masculine rosaen, neuter rosat, comparative méi rosa, superlative am rosasten)

1. pink (color/colour)

Declension

See also

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Latin rosa.

Adjective

rosa (indeclinable)

1. pink (colour)

   Synonym: lyserød

Etymology 2

Noun

rosa (indeclinable)

1. (uncountable) pink, rose (colour)

Etymology 3

Alternative forms

• rosen

Noun

rosa m or f

1. definite feminine singular of rose

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Latin rosa. Doublet of rose and ros.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈruːsɑ/

Adjective

rosa (singular and plural rosa)

1. pink (color/colour)

Noun

rosa ?

1. pink, rose (color/colour)

See also

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hrósa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²ruːsɑ/

Verb

rosa (present tense rosar/roser, past tense rosa/roste, past participle rosa/rost, passive infinitive rosast, present participle rosande, imperative rosa/ros)

1. to praise

Alternative forms

• rose (e- and split infinitives)

Derived terms

• ros m

Etymology 3

A first part likely rose (“rose”) +‎ -a.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²ruːsɑ/

Adjective

rosa (singular and plural rosa)

1. decorated, especially with rosemaling

Etymology 4

From Old Norse rós, rósa, from Latin rosa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²ruːsɑ/

Noun

rosa f (definite singular rosa, indefinite plural roser or rosor, definite plural rosene or rosone)

1. definite singular of rose (“rose”)
2. (pre-2012) alternative form of rose. See there for more.

Etymology 5

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈruːsɑ/

Noun

rosa f

1. (non-standard since 1959) definite singular of ros (“praise”)
2. definite singular of ros (“erysipelas”)

Etymology 6

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈroːsɑ/

Noun

rosa f

1. definite singular of ros (“avalanche; landslide; scratch”)

Etymology 7

Alternative forms

• ròsa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²roːsɑ/

Noun

rosa f (definite singular rosa, indefinite plural roser or rosor, definite plural rosene or rosone)

1. definite singular of rose
2. (pre-2012) alternative form of rose. See there for more.

References

• “rosa” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• oras, osar, roas, ròsa

Old Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *rosà, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁róseh₂.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈrosa/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈrosa/

Noun

rosa f

1. dew

Declension

Descendants

• Czech: rosa

Further reading

• Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “rosa”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin rosa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔ.za/

Noun

rosa f (plural rosas)

1. rose (flower)

   • 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 (color/colour)

   • 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 there for further descendants)

See also

Pali

Alternative forms

Etymology

From the root rus. For the noun, inherited from Sanskrit रोष (roṣa, “anger”). For the verb, see rosati.

Noun

rosa m

1. anger
2. quarrel

Declension

Verb

rosa

1. imperative active second-person singular of rosati (“to annoy”)

References

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *rosà.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔ.sa/
• Rhymes: -ɔsa
• Syllabification: ro‧sa
• Homophone: Rosa

Noun

rosa f

1. dew (any moisture from the atmosphere condensed by cool bodies upon their surfaces)

Declension

Further reading

• rosa in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• rosa in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• rosa in PWN's encyclopedia

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese rosa, from Latin rosa (“rose”).

Pronunciation

• Homophone: Rosa
• Hyphenation: ro‧sa

Noun

rosa f (plural rosas)

1. rose (flower)

Derived terms

Related terms

• Rosa

Descendants

• → Tamil: ரோஜா (rōjā)

Adjective

rosa (invariable)

1. pink (color/colour)

   Synonym: cor-de-rosa

Noun

rosa m (plural rosas)

1. pink (color/colour)

   Synonym: cor-de-rosa

See also

Romansch

Alternative forms

• rösa (Puter, Vallader)

Etymology

From Latin rosa.

Noun

rosa f (plural rosas)

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

Sardinian

Alternative forms

• arrosa, orrosa (Campidanese)

Etymology

From Latin rosa, of disputed origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrosa/

Noun

rosa f (plural rosas)

1. rose (flower)

Derived terms

Noun

rosa f (uncountable)

1. pink (color/colour)

Adjective

rosa (plural rosas)

1. pink (color/colour)

Derived terms

• rosa maladia

References

• Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes

Sassarese

Etymology

From Latin rosa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔza/

Noun

rosa m (plural rosi)

1. rose (flower)

Derived terms

Noun

rosa m (uncountable)

1. pink (color/colour)
2. chicken pox (childhood disease)

   Synonym: baglioru basthardhu

Adjective

rosa (invariable)

1. pink (color/colour)

Related terms

• rosaddu

References

• Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *rosà, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *rasā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁róseh₂.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

ròsa f (Cyrillic spelling ро̀са)

1. dew

Declension

Further reading

• “rosa”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *rosà, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *rasā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁róseh₂.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈrɔsa]

Noun

rosa f (genitive singular rosy, nominative plural rosy, genitive plural rôs, declension pattern of žena)

1. dew

Declension

References

• “rosa”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *rosà, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁róseh₂.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɔ̀ːsa/

Noun

rósa f

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

Inflection

Further reading

• “rosa”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “rosa”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish rosa, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin rosa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrosa/ [ˈro.sa]
• Rhymes: -osa
• Syllabification: ro‧sa

Noun

rosa f (plural rosas)

1. rose (flower)
2. pink (color/colour)
3. (heraldry) rose

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• → Cebuano: rosa
• → Classical Nahuatl: rosa
• → Zoogocho Zapotec: ros
• →⇒ Cebuano: rosas (via rosas (pl.))
• →⇒ Tagalog: rosas (via rosas (pl.))

Adjective

rosa m or f (masculine and feminine plural rosa or rosas)

1. pink (color/colour)
2. feminine singular of roso

Usage notes

• The adjective rosa does not undergo inflection in gender. Thus, whether modifying a masculine or feminine noun, one should use rosa and never "roso".

See also

References

Further reading

• “rosa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Anagrams

• osar
• raso

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈroːˌsa/, /ˈruːˌsa/
• Hyphenation: ro‧sa

Etymology 1

From a Romance language, likely via German, from French rose.

Noun

rosa n

1. pink (color/colour)

   Synonym: skär

Adjective

rosa (not comparable)

1. pink (color/colour)

Usage notes

Uninflected – see the examples.

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hrósa, from Proto-Germanic *hrōþrą. Compare origin of Gothic *𐌷𐍂𐍉𐌸𐍃 (*hrōþs), German Ruhm. Doublet of berömma.

Verb

rosa (present rosar, preterite rosade, supine rosat, imperative rosa)

1. praise, commend

   Synonym: prisa

   Antonym: risa

Conjugation

Derived terms

• kritikerrosad

References

• rosa in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• rosa in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• rosa in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• rosa in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Anagrams

• Orsa, osar, roas

Upper Sorbian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *rosà.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʀɔsa/
• Rhymes: -ɔsa
• Hyphenation: ro‧sa
• Syllabification: ro‧sa

Noun

rosa f

1. dew (water droplets originating from the condensation of water vapor from the atmospheric layer in contact with the earth's surface, formed during the night by cooling of that surface and objects exposed to heat loss by irradiation)

Declension

References

• “rosa” in Soblex