rosetum

rosetum

English

Etymology

    Borrowed from Latin rosētum.

    Noun

    rosetum (plural roseta)

    1. A rose garden.
      • 1870, The Florist and Pomologist: A Pictorial Monthly Magazine, page 169:
        The Weeping Rose should stand singly in the rosetum, or on the lawn.

    Latin

    Etymology

      From rosa (a rose) + -ētum (grove).

      Pronunciation

      Noun

      rosētum n (genitive rosētī); second declension

      1. a rose garden; a bed of roses

      Declension

      Second-declension noun (neuter).

      singular plural
      nominative rosētum rosēta
      genitive rosētī rosētōrum
      dative rosētō rosētīs
      accusative rosētum rosēta
      ablative rosētō rosētīs
      vocative rosētum rosēta

      References

      • rosetum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
      • rosetum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
      • "rosetum", 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)
      • rosetum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.