rós

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ros"

Icelandic

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rosa (rose).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈrouːs/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ouːs

Noun

rós f (genitive singular rósar, nominative plural rósir)

  1. rose
    Þær fegurstu rósir sem ég hef séð, eru þær sem falla fyrst.
    The most beautiful roses that I have seen are those that fall first.

Declension

Declension of rós (feminine)
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative rós rósin rósir rósirnar
accusative rós rósina rósir rósirnar
dative rós rósinni rósum rósunum
genitive rósar rósarinnar rósa rósanna

Derived terms

Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle Irish rós, borrowed from Latin rosa.[2]

Noun

rós m (genitive singular róis, nominative plural rósanna)

  1. rose (flower)
  2. (architecture, electricity, heraldry) rose
Declension
Declension of rós (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative rós rósanna
vocative a róis a rósanna
genitive róis rósanna
dative rós rósanna
rósannaibh (archaic)
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an rós na rósanna
genitive an róis na rósanna
dative leis an rós
don rós
leis na rósanna
Alternative forms
Derived terms
  • bior-rós m (water-lily)
  • rós-hocas m (rose-mallow)
  • rós Mhuire m (rosemary)
  • rós tae m, taerós m (tea-rose)

Etymology 2

Verb

rós (present analytic rósann, future analytic rósfaidh, verbal noun rósadh, past participle rósta)

  1. (ambitransitive) alternative form of róst (roast)
Conjugation

References

  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 82, page 44
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “rós”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

Middle Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rosa.

Noun

rós m or f

  1. rose
    • 1160, Auraicept na n-Éces, l.5645:
      sug in rois doní ruamna
      sap of the rose

Descendants

  • Irish: rós
  • Scottish Gaelic: ròs

Further reading

Old Norse

Noun

rós f

  1. rose
  2. a kind of goblet

Inflection

Declension of rós (strong ō-stem)
feminine singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative rós rósin rósar rósarnar
accusative rós rósina rósar rósarnar
dative rós rósinni rósum rósunum
genitive rósar rósarinnar rósa rósanna