rose

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A flower with a sweet smell and a thorny stem, often given as a sign of love.

   He gave her a single red rose on Valentine's Day.

2. 2
   verb

   Past tense and past participle of rise.

   The sun rose slowly over the mountains.

3. 3
   adj

   Having a pinkish colour.

   The sky turned a soft rose colour at sunset.

4. 4
   name

   A female given name.

   Their youngest daughter is called Rose.

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Simplified etymology

Rose is an Old English flower name from Latin rosa. Rosette, literally “a little rose,” was borrowed from French in the early 17th century. Rosemary originally had no connection with either rose or Mary, although both influenced its present form; it comes from Latin ros marinus “dew of the sea.”

From Middle English rose, roose, from Old English rōse, but with its vowel influenced by Old French rose, both from Latin rosa. cognates and more remote and uncertain etymology The Latin is of uncertain origin, but likely via Oscan from Ancient Greek ῥόδον (rhódon, “rose”) (Aeolic ϝρόδον (wródon)), from Old Persian *vr̥dah (“flower”) (compare Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬜𐬀- (var^əδa-), Sogdian [script needed] (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) / ܘܪܕ…

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