rose

From Middle English rose, roose, from Old English rōse, but with its vowel influenced by Old French rose, both from Latin rosa.

• enPR: rōz
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹəʊz/, [ɹ̠ʷəʊz̥]

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  • (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, such as a compass rose.
5. (mathematics) A bouquet of circles.
6. (heraldry) The rose flower, usually depicted with five petals, five barbs, and a circular seed.
7. (countable, uncountable) A purplish-red or pink color, the color of some rose flowers.

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8. A round nozzle for a sprinkling can or hose.
9. The usually circular base of a light socket in the ceiling, from which the fitting or chandelier is suspended.
10. Any of various large, red-bodied, papilionid butterflies of the genus Pachliopta.
11. (mathematics) Any of various flower-like polar graphs of sinusoids or their squares.
12. (mathematics, graph theory) A graph with only one vertex.
13. (chess) A fairy chess piece that can make knight moves in a circular path.
    • 2018 October 12, aabicus, “My 7 Favorite Fairy Chess Pieces”, in The Daily SPUF‎^[1]:

      The rose moves like a knight, but can continue making knight moves so long as there’s a 45-degree rotation between each jump. […] I can’t help but wonder if a full team of roses could even play against each other.

14. A type of sex toy shaped like a rose.

    Me after ignoring all bad reviews on a rose from Shein and it literally starts electrocuting my clih.

• → 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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rose

1. simple past of rise
2. (now colloquial and nonstandard) past participle of rise
   • 1775, The Complete Gazetteer of England and Wales […] ‎^[2], 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^[3], 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.

• reos, 'orse, REOs, ROEs, roes, RoEs, Roes, eors, orse, ores, öres, sore, Reos, EORs, sero-, eros, Eros, EROS

• Piececlopedia
• S. Emmerson, A Glossary of Fairy Chess Definitions

• “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)

• bonderose c

• → 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/
• (Meridional) 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

Colors in French · couleurs (layout · text)

blanc	gris	noir
rouge; cramoisi, carmin	orange; brun, marron	jaune; crème
lime	vert	menthe
cyan, turquoise; bleu canard	azur, bleu ciel	bleu
violet, lilas; indigo	magenta; pourpre	rose

• “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
2. (playing cards, Swiss suits) roses

Swiss suits in Italian · Semi svizzeri (layout · text)
campanelle	scudi	rose	ghiande

rose

1. third-person singular past historic of rodere

rose f pl

1. feminine plural of roso

• -sore, Reso, orse, reso

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈroː.sɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈrɔː.s̬e]

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 color

• rosee
• rosen

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

Colors in Middle English · coloures, hewes (layout · text)

whit	grey, hor	blak
red; cremesyn, gernet	citrine, aumbre; broun, tawne	yelow, dorry, gul; canevas
grasgrene	grene
plunket; ewage	asure, livid	blew, blo, pers
violet; inde	rose, murrey; purpel, purpur	claret

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

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-colored

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

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

Inherited from Old High German rōsa, from Latin rosa.

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈroːs̠ə/

rōse f or m

1. rose

   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), “rōse”, 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 (color)

   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

Compare Icelandic rosi.

• IPA^(key): /²roːsə/

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

1. (some coastal dialects) a gust of wind

   Synonym: vindkast

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

Weak n-stem:

• rōsen

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

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

Learned borrowing from Latin rosa.

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

1. rose (flower)
2. rosewater

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

rose m (oblique and nominative feminine singular rosee)

1. rose-colored

• “rose”, in DEAF: Dictionnaire Étymologique de l'Ancien Français, Heidelberg: Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1968-.

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