rosalia

See also: Rosalia and Rosalía

English

Etymology

Noun

rosalia (plural rosalias)

(music) A form of melody in which a phrase or passage is successively repeated, each time a step or half-step higher; a melodic sequence.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for rosalia in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Ariolas, solaria

Latin

Etymology

From rosāles [escae] ("an annual feast when tombs were adorned with rose garlands"), from rosa (“rose”).

Noun

rosalia

ceremony of hanging up the garlands of roses

Descendants

Albanian: rshajë
Romanian: rozalii

References

rosalia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

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