rose

Meanings

Noun

• A shrub of the genus Rosa, with red, pink, white or yellow flowers.
• A flower of the rose plant.
• A plant or species in the rose family. (Rosaceae)
• Something resembling a rose flower.
• The rose flower, usually depicted with five petals, five barbs, and a circular seed.
• A purplish-red or pink colour, the colour of some rose flowers.
• A round nozzle for a sprinkling can or hose.
• The usually circular base of a light socket in the ceiling, from which the fitting or chandelier is suspended.
• Any of various large, red-bodied, papilionid butterflies of the genus Pachliopta (genus).
• Any of various flower-like polar graphs of sinusoids or their squares.
• A graph with only one vertex.
• Alternate spelling of rosé

Verb

• To make rose-coloured; to redden or flush.
• To perfume, as with roses.
• Past of rise
• Past participle of rise

Adjective

• Having a purplish-red or pink colour. See rosy.

Origin

• From Middle English rose, roose, from Old English rōse, from Latin rosa, of uncertain origin but possibly via Oscan from Ancient Greek ῥόδον (Aeolic ϝρόδον), from Old Persian *wṛda- ("flower") (compare Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬜𐬀, Sogdian ward, Parthian wâr, late Middle Persian, Persian گل, and Middle Iranian borrowings including Old Armenian վարդ, Aramaic וַרְדָּא / ܘܪܕܐ, Arabic وَرْدَة, Hebrew וֶרֶד), from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥dʰos ("sweetbriar") (compare Old English word ("thornbush"), Latin rubus ("bramble"), Albanian hurdhe ("ivy")). Possibly ultimately a derivation from a verb for "to grow" only attested in Indo-Iranian (*Hwardh-, compare Sanskrit vardh-, with relatives in Avestan).
• From French rosé.