rose

From Middle English rose, roose, from Old English rōse, from Latin rosa, from Oscan, from Ancient Greek ῥόδον (rhódon) (Aeolic ϝρόδον (wródon)), from Old Persian *wṛda- (“flower”) (compare Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬜𐬀‎ (varǝδa-), 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 vardh-, with relatives in Avestan).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹəʊz/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɹoʊz/

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• Rhymes: -əʊz
• Homophones: rows, roes, rhos

rose (plural roses)

1. A shrub of the genus Rosa, with red, pink, white or yellow flowers.
2. A flower of the rose plant.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, The Tragedie of Romeo and Iuliet, Act II, Scene ii:

     Iu. 'Tis but thy name that is my Enemy:
     Thou art thy ſelfe...
     What? in a names that which we call a Roſe,
     By any other word would ſmell as ſweete...

   • 1794, Robert Burns, "A Red, Red Rose:"

     O my Luve's like a red, red rose
     That's newly sprung in june...

   • 1913, Gertrude Stein, "Sacred Emily":

     Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.

3. A plant or species in the rose family. (Rosaceae)
4. Something resembling a rose flower.
5. (heraldry) The rose flower, usually depicted with five petals, five barbs, and a circular seed.
6. A purplish-red or pink colour, the colour of some rose flowers.

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7. A round nozzle for a sprinkling can or hose.
8. The base of a light socket.
9. (mathematics) Any of various flower-like polar graphs of sinusoids or their squares.
10. (mathematics, graph theory) A graph with only one vertex.

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

1. (poetic, transitive) To make rose-coloured; to redden or flush.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Shakespeare

     A maid yet rosed over with the virgin crimson of modesty.

2. (poetic, transitive) To perfume, as with roses.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Tennyson to this entry?)

rose (not comparable)

1. Having a purplish-red or pink colour. See rosy.

• (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine ^{(Category: en:Reds)}

From rise.

rose

1. simple past tense of rise

• arisen
• arose
• risen
• rising

From French rosé (“pinkish”).

rose (plural roses)

1. Alternative spelling of rosé

• 'orse, EROS, Eros, ROEs, Roes, eros, ores, orse, roes, sero-, sore, öres

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

• IPA^(key): /roːsə/, [ˈʁoːsə]

rose c (singular definite rosen, plural indefinite roser)

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

• Greenlandic: ruusa

From French rosé.

• rosé

• IPA^(key): /rose/, [ʁoˈse]

rose c (singular definite roseen, plural indefinite roseer)

1. rosé (a pale pink wine)

From Old Norse hrósa, whence dialectal English roose.

• IPA^(key): /roːsə/, [ˈʁoːsə]

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

1. praise, commend

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

• IPA^(key): /ʁoz/
• (Southern France) IPA^(key): /ʁɔz/
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rose f (plural roses)

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

rose m (plural roses)

1. pink

rose (plural roses)

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

• “rose” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• Éros, ores, oser

From Latin rosa.

rose f (plural rosis)

1. flower

• flôr

• rosât

rose pl

1. plural of rosa

rose

1. third-person singular past historic of rodere
2. Feminine plural past participle of rodere.

• erso, orse, reso

rōse

1. vocative masculine singular of rōsus

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔsɛ/, [ˈrɔsə]

rose

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

• roose, rosse, roos, ros

From Old English rōse, from Latin rosa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔːz(ə)/, /ˈrɔz(ə)/

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. (figuratively) A morally upstanding and virtuous individual.
5. reddish-purple; a rosy colour

• rosee

• English: rose
• Scots: rose

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

From Latin rosa.

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rose m or f

1. (Jersey) pink (colour)

• rôse (Cotentin)

• couleur dé raose (Guernsey)

rose f (plural roses)

1. rose (flower)

From Latin rosa, via Old Norse rós and rósa

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

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

• rosemaling

• “rose” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin rosa, via Old Norse rós and rósa

• IPA^(key): /²ruːsə/

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

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

• rosemåling, rosemaling

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

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

1. Alternative form of rosa

• “rose” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Latin rosa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈroːse/, [ˈroːze]

rōse f (nominative plural rōsan or rōsa)

1. rose

• rōsen

• Middle English: rose, roose
  • English: rose
  • Scots: rose

• rōse in Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary

Borrowed from Latin rosa.

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

1. rose (flower)

• French: rose