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/

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rosa

1. pink (color/colour)

From Latin rosa.

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

• Audio (Valencia):

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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)

• “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, 2026
• “rosa” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “rosa”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

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), 2008–2026

From Latin rosa.

rosa (indeclinable)

1. rose-coloured, rose

   Synonym: rosafarvet

• “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

• 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/

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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^[2] (in German)

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.)

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]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈrɔː.s̬a]
• rosā:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈrɔ.saː]
  • (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, Vergilius, Georgicon 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, Plinius Minor, 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 rose

• In Roman and medieval usage the word, when it meant a garden rose, referred to a type of rose now known as the apothecary rose. The garden roses that are known today were not known to the Romans.

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

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

1. pink (color/colour)

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)

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. First attested in the 14th century.

• 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 (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] they call rose, / because it is a reddish colour.

• Galician: rosa
• Portuguese: rosa (see there for further descendants)

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^[3] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “rosa”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[4] (in Polish)
• rosa in PWN's encyclopedia

• Hyphenation: ro‧sa
• Homophone: Rosa

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese rosa, from Latin rosa (“rose”). Senses referring to the color are an ellipsis of cor-de-rosa. Compare French rose.

rosa f (plural rosas, diminutive rosinha or roseta or rosita)

1. rose (flower)

• → Tamil: ரோஜா (rōjā)

rosa (invariable, diminutive rosinho)

1. pink (color)

   Synonym: cor-de-rosa

rosa m (plural rosas, diminutive rosinha)

1. pink (color)

   Synonym: cor-de-rosa

   Hyponyms: rosa-choque, pink

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

rosa

1. inflection of rosar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “rosa”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “rosa”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), São Paulo: 7Graus, 2009–2026
• “rosa”, in Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisboa: Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, 2001–2026
• “rosa”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “rosa”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “rosa”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• 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)

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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), 2006–2026

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

• IPA^(key): /rɔsa/, [ˈrɔsa]
• Rhymes: -ɔsa
• Hyphenation: ro‧sa

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, 2003–2026

From Proto-Slavic *rosà, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rṓs. First attested in the 16th century.

• IPA^(key): /rɔ̀ːsa/

rósa f

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

• “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 (the expected inherited form would be *ruesa).^[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)
   • 2024 February 25, Peter Valdes-Dapena, “La Cybertruck de Tesla es impresionante pero también preocupante”, in CNN en Español‎^[5]:

     Incluso cuando estacioné una Cybertruck Tesla alquilada junto a un supercoche McLaren de color rosa intenso en el aparcamiento de un centro comercial de California, la gente del McLaren no paraba de hablar de la Cybertruck.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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".

• “rosa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• “rosa”, in Tesoro de los diccionarios históricos de la lengua española [Thesaurus of the Historical Dictionaries of the Spanish Language], Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], launched 2021
• Seco, Manuel; Andrés, Olimpia; Ramos, Gabino (2023), “rosa”, in Diccionario del español actual (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA

• osar
• raso

• IPA^(key): /ˈroːˌsa/, /ˈruːˌsa/

• Audio:

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• 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”)

From Old Swedish rosa, from Old Norse hrósa, from the same root as hróðr (“praise”), from Proto-Germanic *hrōþrą. Cognate with Danish rose. Compare German Ruhm (“glory”), Gothic 𐌷𐍂𐍉𐌸𐌴𐌹𐌲𐍃 (hrōþeigs, “glorious”). Related to berömma.

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

2. to praise, to commend

   Synonym: prisa

   Antonym: risa

• kritikerrosad
• ros (“praise, acclaim”)

• “rosa”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “rosa”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “rosa”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• 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