rose

From Middle English rose, roose, from Old English rōse, from Latin rosa, of uncertain origin but possibly via Oscan from Ancient Greek ῥόδον (rhódon, “rose”) (Aeolic ϝρόδον (wródon)), from Old Persian *wṛda- (“flower”) (compare Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬜𐬀- (var^əδa-), Sogdian ward, Parthian wâr, late Middle Persian [Term?] (gwl /⁠gul⁠/), Persian گل (gol, “rose, flower”), and Middle Iranian borrowings including Old Armenian վարդ (vard, “rose”), 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).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹəʊz/, [ɹ̠ʷəʊz̥]
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɹoʊz/, [ɻʷö̞ʊz̥]

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

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.
   • c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:

     Iu. 'Tis but thy name that is my Enemy:
     Thou art thy ſelfe...
     What's in a name? 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. (countable, uncountable) A purplish-red or pink colour, the colour of some rose flowers.

   Web rose:  

   rose-pink:  

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

• → Marshallese: rooj
• → Tokelauan: loha

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.
   • 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:

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

2. (poetic, transitive) To perfume, as with roses.
   • 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the page number, or |part=Prologue, I to VII, or conclusion)”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:

     the very nape of her white neck
     Was rosed with indignation

rose (not comparable)

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

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• (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, vermilion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine ^{(Category: en:Reds)}

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

rose

1. simple past of rise
2. (now colloquial and nonstandard) past participle of rise
   • 1775, The Complete Gazetteer of England and Wales […] ‎, volume 1, G. Robinson, and R. Baldwin, page 154:

     Chidley-Mount, Som. on the other ſide of the Parret, oppoſite to Bridgewater, which is ſuppoſed to have roſe from its ruins.

   • 1805, Cobbett's Political Register, volume 8, page 89:

     Here the genius of agriculture seems to have rose above its dawn.

   • 2006 January 30, Timothy Stagich, Conscious Ascension: The Global Rise of Mankind Out of the Depths of Conflict‎, Global Leadership Resources, →ISBN, page 86:

     And, it has often been in the most oppressed of times that human beings have rose up and discovered their greatest potential.

From French rosé (“pinkish”).

rose (plural roses)

1. Alternative spelling of rosé

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

• “rose”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

rose

1. plural of roos

• IPA^(key): [ˈrosɛ]

rose f

1. dative/locative singular of rosa

rose

1. masculine singular present transgressive of rosit

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, Old Swedish rōsa.

• IPA^(key): /roːsə/, [ˈʁoːsə]

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

1. to praise, commend

Inherited from Middle French rose, 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

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

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

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

• Éros, ores, oser

From Latin rosa.

rose f (plural rosis)

1. flower

   Synonym: flôr

• rosât

rose pl

1. plural of rosa

rose

1. third-person singular past historic of rodere

rose f pl

1. feminine plural of roso

• -sore, Reso, orse, reso

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈroː.se/, [ˈroːs̠ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈro.se/, [ˈrɔːs̬e]

rōse

1. vocative masculine singular of rōsus

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔsɛ/, [ˈrɔsə]

rose

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

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

• roose, rosse, roos, ros

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

• rosee
• rosen

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

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

rose

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

From Old French rose, from Latin rosa.

rose f (plural roses)

1. rose (flower)

rose m or f (plural roses)

1. rosy; rose-coloured

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

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

From Old High German rōsa, from Latin rosa.

rôse f or m

1. ross

   Ich bin vrô von einer rôsen, diu kan sprëchen süeȥiu wort.

   I am glad of a rose which can say sweet words.

• Alemannic German: Roos, Roose
• Bavarian:

  Cimbrian: roas

  Mòcheno: roas

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

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

From Latin rosa.

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rose m or f

1. (Jersey) pink (colour)

   Synonym: (Guernsey) couleur dé raose

• rôse (Cotentin)

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
• stokkrose

• “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
• stokkrose
• valdresrose

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

• “rose” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Latin rosa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈroː.se/, [ˈroː.ze]

rōse f (nominative plural rōsan or rōsa)

1. rose

• rōsen

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

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “rōse”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Borrowed from Latin rosa.

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

1. rose (flower)

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

rose

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

rose

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

rose (Cyrillic spelling росе)

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