rosa

Believed to derive from the name of the Australian native bird rosella (genus Platycercus), a small parrot noted for its ability to vanish when the need arises.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹoʊzə/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɹəʊzə/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈɹəʉzə/

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• Rhymes: -əʊzə
• Homophone: Rosa

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.

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.

• AORs, AoRs, ORAS, Raos, Raso, Roas, SORA, Soar, Sora, aros, oars, oras, osar, soar, sora

From Latin rosa.

rosa f (plural rosas)

1. rose (flower)

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

From Latin rosa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrosa/, [ˈro.sa]

rosa f (plural roses)

1. rose (flower)

rosa m (plural roses)

1. rose (colour)

Cognate with German rosa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈroː.sɐ/

rosa

1. pink

From Latin rosa.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈrɔ.zə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈrɔ.za/

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rosa f (plural roses)

1. rose (a flower of the rose plant)

• rosari

rosa m (plural roses)

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

rosa (indeclinable)

1. pink

• “rosa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “rosa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “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.

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

• Hyphenation: ro‧sa

rosa

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

rosa

1. of the colour pink

From Spanish rosa, from Latin rosa.

rosa

1. Rose.

   Synonym: Caxtillan xochitl

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

     Flor o roſa de caſtilla. caſtillan xuchitl. Roſa.

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

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

rosa f

1. dew

• rosný

• rosa in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• rosa in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• rosa in Internetová jazyková příručka

From Latin rosa.

rosa f (plural rosas)

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

• rosa dos ventos

• irrosa

From Latin rosa, of disputed origin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔza/

rosa f (plural rosi)

1. rose (flower)

• rusetu

rosa m (uncountable)

1. (color) pink

• rusulinu

rosa (invariable)

1. pink (having a pink colour)

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

From Latin rosa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʁoːza/

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• Hyphenation: ro‧sa
• Rhymes: -oːza

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

• 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.

• → Estonian: roosa
• → Latvian: rozā
  • → Livonian: rōza
• → Swedish: rosa

• pink (used in German for stronger shades only)

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

rosa m sg or m pl

1. inflection of ros:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/dative plural

a rosa m pl

1. vocative plural of ros

an rosa m sg

1. definite genitive singular of ros

na rosa m pl

1. definite nominative plural of ros

leis na rosa m pl

1. definite dative plural of ros

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “rosa”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Entries containing “rosa” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “rosa” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

From Latin rosa.

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

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

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

rosa m (invariable)

1. (color) pink, rose

rosa (invariable)

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

Past participle of rodere.

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

rosa f sg

1. feminine singular of roso

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

rosa f (plural rose)

1. (obsolete) erosion

   Synonym: erosione

2. (Tuscany) itch, itching

   Synonyms: pizzicore, prurito

• Sora, arso, orsa, raso, rasò, sarò

Might be derived from Ancient Greek ῥόδον (rhódon), but some of the details remain mysterious. One possible way: from Oscan, from Ancient Greek ῥόδον (rhódon) (Aeolic ϝρόδον (wródon)), from Old Persian *wṛda- (“flower”) (compare Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬜𐬀- (var^əδa-), Sogdian ward, Parthian wâr, late Middle Persian gwl (gul), Persian گل (gul), and Middle Iranian borrowings including Old Armenian վարդ (vard), Aramaic וַרְדָּא (wardā) / ܘܪܕܐ (wardā), Arabic وَرْدَة (warda), Hebrew וֶרֶד (wéreḏ)), from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥dʰos (“sweetbriar”) (compare Old English word (“thornbush”), Latin rubus (“bramble”), Albanian hurdhe (“ivy”)). Possibly ultimately a derivation from a verb for "to grow" only attested in Indo-Iranian (*Hwardʰ-, compare Sanskrit वर्धति (vardhati), with relatives in Avestan).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈro.sa/, [ˈrɔs̠ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈro.sa/, [ˈrɔːs̬ä]

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.

First-declension noun.

Borrowings

Unsorted borrowings

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈro.saː/, [ˈrɔs̠äː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈro.sa/, [ˈrɔːs̬ä]

rosā

1. ablative singular of rosa

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈroː.sa/, [ˈroːs̠ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈro.sa/, [ˈrɔːs̬ä]

rōsa

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈroː.saː/, [ˈroːs̠äː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈro.sa/, [ˈrɔːs̬ä]

rōsā

1. ablative feminine singular of rōsus

• "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

rosa f (4 declension)

1. activity, bustle, animation

   Synonyms: rosība, rosme

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔsa/

rosa f (diminutive roska)

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

• 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

From Latin rosa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʀoːza/

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rosa (masculine rosaen, neuter rosat, not comparable)

1. pink

From Latin rosa.

rosa (indeclinable)

1. pink (colour)

   Synonym: lyserød

rosa (indeclinable (uncountable))

1. pink, rose (colour)

• rosen

rosa m or f

1. definite feminine singular of rose

From Latin rosa. Doublet of rose and ros.

• IPA^(key): /ˈruːsɑ/

rosa (singular and plural rosa)

1. pink

rosa ?

1. (colour) pink, rose

From Old Norse hrósa.

• IPA^(key): /²ruːsɑ/

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

• rose (e- and split infinitives)

• ros m

ein rosa vegg

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

• IPA^(key): /²ruːsɑ/

rosa (singular and plural rosa)

1. decorated, especially with rosemaling

ein roseblom

From Old Norse rós, rósa, from Latin rosa.

• IPA^(key): /²ruːsɑ/

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈruːsɑ/

rosa f

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈroːsɑ/

rosa f

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

• ròsa

• IPA^(key): /²roːsɑ/

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.

• “rosa” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• oras, osar, roas, ròsa

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

rosa f

1. dew

• Czech: rosa

• “rosa”, in Vokabulář webový: webové hnízdo pramenů k poznání historické češtiny [online], Praha: Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, 2006–2023

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔ.za/

rosa f

1. rose (flower)
   • 13th century CE, 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 CE, 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.

• Galician: rosa
• Portuguese: rosa

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔ.sa/

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• Rhymes: -ɔsa
• Syllabification: ro‧sa

rosa f

1. dew

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

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

• Homophone: Rosa
• Hyphenation: ro‧sa

rosa f (plural rosas)

1. rose (flower)

• Rosa

rosa (invariable)

1. pink

   Synonym: cor-de-rosa

rosa m (plural rosas)

1. pink (color)

   Synonym: cor-de-rosa

• rösa (Puter, Vallader)

From Latin rosa.

rosa f (plural rosas)

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

• arrosa, orrosa (Campidanese)

From Latin rosa, of disputed origin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrosa/

rosa f (plural rosas)

1. rose (flower)

rosa f (uncountable)

1. (color) pink

rosa (invariable)

1. pink (having a pink colour)

• rosa maladia

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

From Latin rosa, of disputed origin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔza/

rosa m (plural rosi)

1. rose (flower)

rosa m (uncountable)

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

   Synonym: baglioru basthardhu

rosa (invariable)

1. pink (having a pink colour)

• rosaddu

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

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

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

ròsa f (Cyrillic spelling ро̀са)

1. dew

• “rosa” in Hrvatski jezični portal

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈrosa]

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

1. dew

• rosa in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

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

• IPA^(key): /rɔ̀ːsa/

rósa f

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