rosa

rosa

1. inflection of rosë:
   1. definite nominative singular
   2. indefinite nominative/accusative plural

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]
• Rhymes: -osa
• Syllabification: ro‧sa

rosa f (plural roses)

1. rose (flower)

rosa m (plural roses)

1. rose (colour)

Cognate with German rosa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈroː.sɐ/

  • Audio:

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rosa

1. pink (color/colour)

Colors in Bavarian · Foarbm (layout · text)

weiß	grau	schwoarz
roud/rood	oransch/orange; braun	gejb/gölb/gööb
	grea/grean
	blau	blau
lila, violett	lila	rosa

From Latin rosa.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈrɔ.zə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈrɔ.za]

• Audio (Valencia):

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• Audio (Catalonia):

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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 (invariable)

1. pink (color/colour)

Colors in Catalan · colors (layout · text)

blanc	gris	negre
roig, vermell; carmesí	taronja; marró	groc; crema
verd llima	verd
cian; xarxet	atzur	blau
violat; indi	magenta; lila, porpra	rosa

• “rosa”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “rosa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “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. pink (color/colour)

rosa

1. pink (color/colour)

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.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

From roos (“net”) +‎ -a. Compare Welsh rhwydo.

rosa

1. to catch

   Synonyms: kachya, lestra

2. to confine, ensnare, net
3. (sports) to score a goal

From Old Czech rosa, from Proto-Slavic *rosà, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rṓs.

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

rosa f

1. dew

• “rosa”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “rosa”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “rosa”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

From Latin rosa.

rosa (indeclinable)

1. rose-coloured, rose

   Synonym: rosafarvet

Colors in Danish · farver (layout · text)

hvid	grå	sort
rød; højrød, mørkerød	orange; brun	gul; flødefarvet
lime, lysegrøn	grøn, mørkegrøn	mintgrøn
cyan; turkis, lyseblå	azurblå, himmelblå	blå, mørkeblå
violet; indigo	magenta; lilla	lyserød, rosa

• “rosa” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Latin rosa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔsa/ [ˈrɔ.s̺ɐ]
• Rhymes: -ɔsa

rosa f (plural rosas)

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

• rosa dos ventos

Colors in Galician · cores (layout · text)

branco	gris	negro, preto
vermello; carmín	laranxa; castaño, marrón	amarelo; crema
verde lima	verde	menta; verde escuro
ciano; azul verdoso	cerúleo	azul
violeta; anil	maxenta; púrpura	rosa

• irrosa

From Latin rosa, of disputed origin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔza/

rosa f (plural rosi)

1. rose (flower)

• rusetu

rosa m (uncountable)

1. pink (color/colour)

• rusulinu

rosa (invariable)

1. pink (color/colour)

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

From Latin rosa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʁoːza/

• Audio:

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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.

• → Latvian: rozā (see there for further descendants)
• → Norwegian: rosa
• → Swedish: rosa
  • → Estonian: roosa
  • → Finnish: roosa

• pink (used in German for stronger shades only)

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

rosa

1. inflection of ros (“headland”):
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/vocative/dative plural

From Latin rosa.

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

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

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

rosa m (invariable)

1. pink, rose (color/colour)

rosa (invariable)

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

Colors in Italian · colori (layout · text)

bianco	argento; grigio	nero
rosso; cremisi	arancione; marrone; bronzo	giallo; oro; crema
verde chiaro; limetta	verde	verde acqua; acquamarina; verde menta; verde menta scuro
ciano; azzurro; celeste; blu petrolio; foglia di tè	azzurro; celeste; celeste scuro	blu; blu scuro
violetto; indaco	magenta; viola	rosa; fucsia; porpora

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

Probably derived from a variant of Ancient Greek ῥόδον (rhódon), but some of the details remain mysterious. Possibly via another Italic language like Oscan, or alternatively via the Aeolic version of ῥοδέᾱ (rhodéā, “rose-bush”) which would have been *ῥοζά (*rhozá).^[1]

• rosa: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈrɔ.sa]
• rosa: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈrɔː.s̬a]
• rosā: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈrɔ.saː]
• rosā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈrɔː.s̬a]

rosa f (genitive rosae); first declension

1. rose (plant of the genus Rosa or its flower)
   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 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.^[2][3]

     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.^[4][5]
     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.^[6]

2. (transferred sense) dear, rose, sweetheart, love (word of endearment)

   Mea rosa. ― My love.

   Rosa! ― Honey!

   Tu mihi rosa es. ― You are my sweetheart.

First-declension noun.

Borrowings

Unsorted borrowings

rosā

1. ablative singular of rosa

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• rōsa: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈroː.sa]
• rōsa: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈrɔː.s̬a]
• rōsā: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈroː.saː]
• rōsā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈrɔː.s̬a]

rōsa

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

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 *h₁rṓs.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔsa/

rosa f (diminutive roska)

1. dew

• 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/

• Audio:

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rosa (masculine rosaen, neuter rosat, comparative méi rosa, superlative am rosasten)

1. pink (color/colour)

Colors in Luxembourgish · Faarwen (layout · text)

wäiss	gro	schwaarz
rout	orange; brong	giel
	gréng
turquoise	blo (hellblo, himmelblo)	blo (donkelblo)
violett; indigo	magenta; mof	rosa; pink

From Latin rosa.

rosa (indeclinable)

1. pink (colour)

   Synonym: lyserød

rosa (indeclinable)

1. (uncountable) 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 (color/colour)

rosa ?

1. pink, rose (color/colour)

Colors in Norwegian Nynorsk · fargar (layout · text)

kvit	grå	svart
raud	oransje; brun	gul
	grøn
(turkis)		blå
	rosa; lilla	rosa

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

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

• IPA^(key): /²ruːsɑ/

rosa (singular and plural rosa)

1. decorated, especially with rosemaling

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

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *rosà, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rṓs.

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈrosa/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈrosa/

rosa f

1. dew

• Czech: rosa

• Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “rosa”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

From Latin rosa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔ.za/

rosa f (plural rosas)

1. rose (flower)
   • a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, 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 (color/colour)
   • a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, 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 (see there for further descendants)

Colors in Old Galician-Portuguese · coores, colores (layout · text)

branco, blanco, alvo	gris	negro, preto
vermelho	castanho	amarelo
	verde
		azur
	cardẽo	rosa

From the root rus. For the noun, inherited from Sanskrit रोष (roṣa, “anger”). For the verb, see rosati.

rosa m^[1]

1. anger^[1][2]
2. quarrel^[2]

rosa

1. imperative active second-person singular of rosati (“to annoy”)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *rosà.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔ.sa/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔsa
• Syllabification: ro‧sa
• Homophone: Rosa

rosa f

1. dew (any moisture from the atmosphere condensed by cool bodies upon their surfaces)

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

From Old Galician-Portuguese rosa, from Latin rosa (“rose”).

• Homophone: Rosa
• Hyphenation: ro‧sa

rosa f (plural rosas)

1. rose (flower)

• Rosa

• → Tamil: ரோஜா (rōjā)

rosa (invariable)

1. pink (color/colour)

   Synonym: cor-de-rosa

rosa m (plural rosas)

1. pink (color/colour)

   Synonym: cor-de-rosa

Colors in Portuguese · cores (layout · text)

branco, alvo, cândido	cinza, gris, cinzento	preto, negro, atro
vermelho, encarnado, rubro, salmão; carmim	laranja, cor de laranja; castanho, marrom	amarelo, lúteo; creme, ocre
verde-limão	verde	verde-água; verde-menta
ciano, turquesa; azul-petróleo	azul-bebê / azul-bebé, azul-celeste	azul, índigo, anil
violeta, lilás	magenta; roxo, púrpura	rosa, cor-de-rosa, rosa-choque

• 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. pink (color/colour)

rosa (plural rosas)

1. pink (color/colour)

• rosa maladia

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

From Latin rosa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔza/

rosa m (plural rosi)

1. rose (flower)

rosa m (uncountable)

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

   Synonym: baglioru basthardhu

rosa (invariable)

1. pink (color/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 *h₁rṓs.

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

ròsa f (Cyrillic spelling ро̀са)

1. dew

• “rosa”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

From Proto-Slavic *rosà, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *rasā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rṓs.

• IPA^(key): [ˈrɔsa]

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

1. dew

• “rosa”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

From Proto-Slavic *rosà, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rṓs.

• IPA^(key): /rɔ̀ːsa/

rósa f

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

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem
nominative	rôsa
genitive	rôse
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	rôsa
genitive (rodȋlnik)	rôse
dative (dajȃlnik)	rôsi
accusative (tožȋlnik)	rôso
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	rôsi
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	rôso

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem, long mixed accent
nominative	rôsa
genitive	rosé
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	rôsa
genitive (rodȋlnik)	rosé
dative (dajȃlnik)	rôsi
accusative (tožȋlnik)	rosó
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	rôsi
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	rosó

• “rosa”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “rosa”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references

From Old Spanish rosa, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin rosa.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈrosa/ [ˈro.sa]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -osa
• Syllabification: ro‧sa

rosa f (plural rosas)

1. rose (flower)
2. pink (color/colour)
3. (heraldry) rose

• → Cebuano: rosa
• → Classical Nahuatl: rosa
• → Zoogocho Zapotec: ros
• →⇒ Cebuano: rosas (via rosas (pl.))
• →⇒ Tagalog: rosas (via rosas (pl.))

rosa m or f (masculine and feminine plural rosa or rosas)

1. pink (color/colour)
2. feminine singular of roso

• The adjective rosa does not undergo inflection in gender. Thus, whether modifying a masculine or feminine noun, one should use rosa and never "roso".

Colors in Spanish · colores (layout · text)

blanco	gris	negro
rojo; carmín, carmesí	naranja, anaranjado; marrón	amarillo; crema
lima	verde	menta
cian, turquesa; azul-petróleo	celeste, cerúleo	azul
violeta; añil, índigo	magenta; morado, púrpura	rosa, rosado

• “rosa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

• osar
• raso

• IPA^(key): /ˈroːˌsa/, /ˈruːˌsa/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ro‧sa

From a Romance language, likely via German, from French rose.

rosa n

1. pink (color/colour)

   Synonym: skär

rosa (not comparable, indeclinable)

1. pink (color/colour)

   en rosa kanin

   a pink rabbit

   ett rosa hus

   a pink house

   rosa rosor

   pink roses

• chockrosa (“shocking pink”)

Colors in Swedish · färger (layout · text)

vit	grå	svart
röd; karmosin, karmosinröd, blodröd	orange (common), brandgul (now uncommon); brun	gul; beige
limegrön	grön	mintgrön
turkos (common), cyan (rare); blågrön, teal	himmelsblå, azur	blå
lila, violett, gredelin (light lavender, now uncommon); indigo	magenta; purpur	rosa (common), skär (uncommon)

From Old Norse hrósa, from Proto-Germanic *hrōþrą. Compare origin of Gothic *𐌷𐍂𐍉𐌸𐍃 (*hrōþs), German Ruhm. Doublet of berömma.

rosa (present rosar, preterite rosade, supine rosat, imperative rosa)

1. praise, commend

   Synonym: prisa

   Antonym: risa

• kritikerrosad

• rosa in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• rosa in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• rosa in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• rosa in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

• Orsa, osar, roas

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *rosà.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʀɔsa/
• Rhymes: -ɔsa
• Hyphenation: ro‧sa
• Syllabification: ro‧sa

rosa f

1. dew (water droplets originating from the condensation of water vapor from the atmospheric layer in contact with the earth's surface, formed during the night by cooling of that surface and objects exposed to heat loss by irradiation)

• “rosa” in Soblex