"rose (flower)" in seven languages
Meaningrose (flower)
Spanish
rosa
/ˈrosa/
fem.learned
French
rose
/ʁoz/
fem.learned
Italian
rosa
/ˈrɔza/
fem.learned
Portuguese
rosa
/ˈhɔzɐ/
fem.learned
Romanian
trandafir
/trandaˈfir/
masc.other source · Modern Greek triantáfyllo ('thirty-leaved')
Roz 'pink' is from French rose.
Catalan
rosa
/ˈrɔzə/
fem.learned
English
rose
/roʊz/
from Latin/French · Latin rosa (Old English rōse), reinforced by French rose
English → Italianrose (flower)rosaCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
ROSAM‘rose’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
ROSA had a short o, which in a fully inherited word would have broken into ue, eu, uo. It never did in any sister: the flower's name stayed close to written Latin, so it counts as (semi-)learned.
English relatives: rosary, rosé
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In a sentence
- esMe regaló una rosa roja.
- frElle m'a offert une rose rouge.
- itMi ha regalato una rosa rossa.
- ptEla me deu uma rosa vermelha.
- roMi-a dăruit un trandafir roșu.
- caEm va regalar una rosa vermella.
- enShe gave me a red rose.