rose

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English

Wikispecies

Etymology 1

From Middle English rose, roose, from Old English rōse, but with its vowel influenced by Old French rose, both from Latin rosa.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹəʊz/, [ɹ̠ʷəʊz̥]
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɹoʊz/, [ɻʷö̞ʊz̥]
• Rhymes: -əʊz
• Homophones: rows, roes, rhos

Noun

rose (countable and uncountable, plural roses)

1. A shrub of the genus Rosa, with red, pink, white or yellow flowers.
2. A flower of the rose plant.
   • 1794, Robert Burns, "A Red, Red Rose:"

     O my Luve's like a red, red rose
     That's newly sprung in june...
3. A plant or species in the rose family. (Rosaceae)
4. Something resembling a rose flower.
5. (mathematics) A bouquet of circles.
6. (heraldry) The rose flower, usually depicted with five petals, five barbs, and a circular seed.
7. (countable, uncountable) A purplish-red or pink color, the color of some rose flowers.

8. A round nozzle for a sprinkling can or hose.
9. The usually circular base of a light socket in the ceiling, from which the fitting or chandelier is suspended.
10. Any of various large, red-bodied, papilionid butterflies of the genus Pachliopta.
11. (mathematics) Any of various flower-like polar graphs of sinusoids or their squares.
12. (mathematics, graph theory) A graph with only one vertex.

Descendants

• → Marshallese: rooj
• → Tokelauan: loha

Translations

Verb

rose (third-person singular simple present roses, present participle rosing, simple past and past participle rosed)

1. (poetic, transitive) To make rose-colored; to redden or flush.
2. (poetic, transitive) To perfume, as with roses.

Adjective

rose (not comparable)

1. Having a purplish-red or pink color; rosy.

Translations

Derived terms

See also

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Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

rose

1. simple past of rise
2. (now colloquial and nonstandard) past participle of rise

Related terms

Etymology 3

From French rosé (“pinkish”).

Noun

rose (plural roses)

1. Alternative spelling of rosé.

Anagrams

• reos, 'orse, REOs, ROEs, roes, RoEs, Roes, eors, orse, ores, öres, sore, Reos, EORs, sero-, eros, Eros, EROS

References

• “rose”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Afrikaans

Noun

rose

1. plural of roos

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈrosɛ]

Etymology 1

Noun

rose f

1. dative/locative singular of rosa

Etymology 2

Verb

rose

1. masculine singular present transgressive of rosit

Danish

Etymology 1

From late Old Norse rós, rósa, from Middle Low German rōse, from Latin rosa (“rose”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /roːsə/, [ˈʁoːsə]

Noun

rose c (singular definite rosen, plural indefinite roser)

1. rose (flower, shrub of the genus Rosa)

Inflection

Derived terms

• bonderose c

Descendants

• → Greenlandic: ruusa

Etymology 2

From French rosé.

Alternative forms

• rosé

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rose/, [ʁoˈse]

Noun

rose c (singular definite roseen, plural indefinite roseer)

1. rosé (a pale pink wine)

Inflection

Etymology 3

From Old Norse hrósa, whence dialectal English roose, Old Swedish rōsa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /roːsə/, [ˈʁoːsə]

Verb

rose (imperative ros, infinitive at rose, present tense roser, past tense roste, perfect tense har rost)

1. to praise, commend

Conjugation

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French rose, from Old French rose, borrowed from Latin rosa (the expected form if it was inherited would be *reuse).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁoz/
• (Meridional) IPA^(key): /ʁɔz/

Noun

rose f (plural roses)

1. rose (flower)
2. rose window
3. (heraldry) rose

Derived terms

Noun

rose m (plural roses)

1. pink

Adjective

rose (plural roses)

1. pink
2. (humorous) pink, left-wing
3. (colloquial) erotic, blue
4. (in phrases) rosy, rose-tinted

Derived terms

• crevette rose
• flamant rose
• téléphone rose
• voir la vie en rose

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: woz
• Louisiana Creole: ròz, roz
• Mauritian Creole: roz
• Seychellois Creole: roz
• → Greek: ροζ (roz)
• → Luxembourgish: Rous
• → Persian: رز (roz)
• → Romanian: roz

See also

Further reading

• “rose”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• Éros, ores, oser

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin rosa.

Noun

rose f (plural rosis)

1. flower

   Synonym: flôr

Related terms

• rosât

Italian

Etymology 1

Noun

rose pl

1. plural of rosa

Etymology 2

Verb

rose

1. third-person singular past historic of rodere

Etymology 3

Participle

rose f pl

1. feminine plural of roso

Anagrams

• -sore, Reso, orse, reso

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈroː.sɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈrɔː.s̬e]

Participle

rōse

1. vocative masculine singular of rōsus

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔsɛ/, [ˈrɔsə]

Noun

rose

1. inflection of rosa:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English rōse, from Latin rosa. Reinforced and remodelled on Old French rose, from the same Latin source.

Alternative forms

• roose, rosse, roos, ros

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔːz(ə)/, /ˈrɔz(ə)/

Noun

rose (plural roses or rosen)

1. rose (plant belonging to the genus Rosa)
2. rose (flower of the rose plant)
3. (heraldry) The rose as a heraldic emblem.
4. (figurative) A morally upstanding and virtuous individual.
5. reddish-purple; a rosy color

Related terms

• rosee
• rosen

Descendants

• English: rose (see there for further descendants)
• Scots: rose
• Yola: rowse

See also

References

• “rō̆se, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.

Etymology 2

Verb

rose

1. alternative form of rosen (“to boast”)

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French rose, from Latin rosa.

Noun

rose f (plural roses)

1. rose (flower)

Adjective

rose m or f (plural roses)

1. rosy; rose-colored

Descendants

• French: rose (see there for further descendants)
• → Middle Dutch: rose
  • Dutch: rose

References

• rose on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

Middle High German

Etymology

Inherited from Old High German rōsa, from Latin rosa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈroːs̠ə/

Noun

rōse f or m

1. rose

Declension

Descendants

• Alemannic German: Roos, Roose
• Bavarian:

  Cimbrian: roas

  Mòcheno: roas

• Central Franconian: Rus
• German: Rose (see there for further descendants)
• Vilamovian: ruuz
• Yiddish: רויז (royz)

References

• Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “rōse”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel

Norman

Etymology

From Latin rosa.

Pronunciation

Adjective

rose m or f

1. (Jersey) pink (color)

   Synonym: (Guernsey) couleur dé raose

Alternative forms

• rôse (Cotentin)

Noun

rose f (plural roses)

1. rose (flower)

Derived terms

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin rosa, via Old Norse rós and rósa.

Noun

rose f or m (definite singular rosa or rosen, indefinite plural roser, definite plural rosene)

1. a rose (plant and flower of genus Rosa)

Derived terms

• rosemaling
• stokkrose

References

• “rose” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Latin rosa, via Old Norse rós and rósa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²ruːsə/

Noun

rose f (definite singular rosa, indefinite plural roser, definite plural rosene)

1. a rose (plant and flower of genus Rosa)

Derived terms

• rosemåling, rosemaling
• stokkrose
• valdresrose

Etymology 2

Compare Icelandic rosi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²roːsə/

Noun

rose f (definite singular rosa, indefinite plural roser, definite plural rosene)

1. (some coastal dialects) a gust of wind

   Synonym: vindkast

Etymology 3

Verb

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

1. alternative form of rosa

Further reading

• “rose” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Etymology

From Latin rosa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈroː.se/, [ˈroː.ze]

Noun

rōse f (nominative plural rōsan or rōsa)

1. rose

Declension

Weak feminine (n-stem):

Derived terms

• rōsen

Descendants

• Middle English: rose, roose, rosse, roos, ros
  • English: rose (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: rose
  • Yola: rowse

References

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “rōse”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Old French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin rosa.

Noun

rose oblique singular, f (oblique plural roses, nominative singular rose, nominative plural roses)

1. rose (flower)
2. rosewater

Derived terms

Descendants

• Middle French: rose
  • French: rose (see there for further descendants)
  • → Middle Dutch: rose
    • Dutch: rose
• Norman: rose
• Picard: rose
• Walloon: rôze

Adjective

rose m (oblique and nominative feminine singular rosee)

1. rose-colored

References

• “rose”, in DEAF: Dictionnaire Étymologique de l'Ancien Français, Heidelberg: Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1968-.

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

rose

1. inflection of rosa (“anger”):
   1. locative singular
   2. accusative plural

Verb

rose

1. optative active singular of rosati (“to annoy”)

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

rose (Cyrillic spelling росе)

1. inflection of rosa:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural