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medlar
English
Etymology
Via Middle English medler, medeler, from Old French medler, meslier, from medle, mesdle (“medlar fruit”), from Latin mespilum, from Ancient Greek ???????? (méspilon). Related to the rare mesple, via Proto-West Germanic *mespil?.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?m?dl?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?m?dl?/
- (General New Zealand) IPA(key): /?medl?/
Noun
medlar (plural medlars)
- Mespilus germanica, common medlar (now often Crataegus germanica)
- Any tree of the genus Mespilus, now often Crataegus sect. Mespilus, including many species now in other genera.
- Any of several similar trees that bear similar fruit
- Stern's medlar (Crataegus × canescens: family Rosaceae)
- Mediterranean medlar or azarole (Crataegus azarolus: family Rosaceae)
- Japanese medlar or loquat (Eriobotrya japonica: family Rosaceae)
- Spanish medlar or bulletwood (Mimusops elengi: family Sapotaceae)
- African medlar (Vangueria infausta: family Rubiaceae)
- Wolfberry, goji, red medlar (Lycium spp.),
- The fruit of such trees, similar to small apples
- especially that of Crataegus sect. Mespilus, not eaten until it has begun to decay, or more specifically, to blet.
- Synonym: open arse
- especially that of Crataegus sect. Mespilus, not eaten until it has begun to decay, or more specifically, to blet.
- (derogatory, intended sexually) A woman or a woman's genitalia (as the fruit's appearance mimics an "open-arse")
- c. 1604: Measure for Measure, William Shakespeare
- I was once before him for getting a wench with child....but I was fain to forswear it; they would else have married me to the rotten medlar.
- c. 1604: Measure for Measure, William Shakespeare
Derived terms
- African medlar (Vangueria infausta)
- common medlar (Mespilus germanica)
- Dutch medlar (Mespilus germanica)
- Japan medlar, Japanese medlar (loquat)
- Mediterranean medlar (Crataegus azarolus)
- Neapolitan medlar (Crataegus azarolus)
- red medlar (Lycium spp.)
- Savoy medlar (Amelanchier ovalis)
- Spanish medlar (Mimusops elengi
- Stern's medlar (Crataegus × canescens)
- Welsh medlar (Crataegus azarolus)
Translations
References
- medlar at OneLook Dictionary Search
- medlar in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- Mespilus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Mespilus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Mespilus at Plants of the World Online
- Crataegus at Plants of the World Online
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “medlar”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Anagrams
- Del Mar, Delmar, dermal, mardle, marled, merlad
Swedish
Verb
medlar
- present tense of medla.
Anagrams
- armled
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rose
English
Wikispecies
Etymology 1
From Middle English rose, roose, from Old English r?se, from Latin rosa, of uncertain origin but possibly via Oscan from Ancient Greek ????? (rhódon, “rose”) (Aeolic ?????? (wródon)), from Old Persian *w?da- (“flower”) (compare Avestan ????????????????????????-? (var??a-), Sogdian ward, Parthian wâr, late Middle Persian [Term?] (gwl /gul/), Persian ??? (gul, “rose, flower”), and Middle Iranian borrowings including Old Armenian ???? (vard, “rose”), Aramaic ????????? (ward?) / ????? (ward?), Arabic ???????? (warda), Hebrew ?????? (wére?)), from Proto-Indo-European *wr?d?os (“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).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /???z/, [?????z?]
- (US) IPA(key): /?o?z/, [??ö??z?]
- Rhymes: -??z
- Homophones: rows, roes, rhos
Noun
rose (plural roses)
- A shrub of the genus Rosa, with red, pink, white or yellow flowers.
- A flower of the rose plant.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, The Tragedie of Romeo and Iuliet, Act II, Scene ii:
- Iu. 'Tis but thy name that is my Enemy:
Thou art thy ?elfe...
What's in a name? That which we call a Ro?e,
By any other word would ?mell as ?weete...
- Iu. 'Tis but thy name that is my Enemy:
- 1794, Robert Burns, "A Red, Red Rose:"
- O my Luve's like a red, red rose
That's newly sprung in june...
- O my Luve's like a red, red rose
- 1913, Gertrude Stein, "Sacred Emily":
- Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, The Tragedie of Romeo and Iuliet, Act II, Scene ii:
- A plant or species in the rose family. (Rosaceae)
- Something resembling a rose flower.
- (heraldry) 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 base of a light socket.
- Any of various large, red-bodied, papilionid butterflies of the genus Pachliopta.
- (mathematics) Any of various flower-like polar graphs of sinusoids or their squares.
- (mathematics, graph theory) A graph with only one vertex.
Descendants
- ? Marshallese: rooj
Translations
Verb
rose (third-person singular simple present roses, present participle rosing, simple past and past participle rosed)
- (poetic, transitive) To make rose-coloured; to redden or flush.
- (poetic, transitive) To perfume, as with roses.
Adjective
rose (not comparable)
- Having a purplish-red or pink colour. See rosy.
Translations
Derived terms
See also
- (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine (Category: en:Reds)
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
rose
- simple past tense of rise
- (now colloquial and nonstandard) past participle of rise
Related terms
Etymology 3
From French rosé (“pinkish”).
Noun
rose (plural roses)
- Alternative spelling of rosé
Anagrams
- 'orse, EROS, Eros, ROEs, Roes, eros, ores, orse, roes, sero-, sore, öres
Afrikaans
Noun
rose
- plural of roos
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?ros?]
Noun
rose f
- dative/locative singular of rosa
Verb
rose
- masculine singular present transgressive of rosit
Danish
Etymology 1
From late Old Norse rós, rósa, from Middle Low German r?se, from Latin rosa (“rose”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ro?s?/, [??o?s?]
Noun
rose c (singular definite rosen, plural indefinite roser)
- rose (flower, shrub of the genus Rosa)
Inflection
Descendants
- ? Greenlandic: ruusa
Etymology 2
From French rosé.
Alternative forms
- rosé
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /rose/, [?o?se]
Noun
rose c (singular definite roseen, plural indefinite roseer)
- rosé (a pale pink wine)
Inflection
Etymology 3
From Old Norse hrósa, whence dialectal English roose, Old Swedish r?sa.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ro?s?/, [??o?s?]
Verb
rose (imperative ros, infinitive at rose, present tense roser, past tense roste, perfect tense har rost)
- to praise, commend
Conjugation
French
Etymology
From Old French rose, borrowed from Latin rosa (the expected form if it was inherited would be *reuse).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?oz/
- (Southern France) IPA(key): /??z/
- (Paris)
Noun
rose f (plural roses)
- rose (flower)
- rose window
- (heraldry) rose
Derived terms
Noun
rose m (plural roses)
- pink
Adjective
rose (plural roses)
- pink
- (humorous) pink, left-wing
- (colloquial) erotic, blue
- (in phrases) rosy, rose-tinted
Derived terms
- crevette rose
- téléphone rose
- voir la vie en rose
Descendants
- Haitian Creole: woz
- Mauritian Creole: roz
- Seychellois Creole: roz
- ? Greek: ??? (roz)
- ? Luxembourgish: Rous
- ? Persian: ??? (roz)
- ? Romanian: roz
See also
Further reading
- “rose” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- Éros, ores, oser
Friulian
Etymology
From Latin rosa.
Noun
rose f (plural rosis)
- flower
- Synonym: flôr
Related terms
- rosât
Italian
Noun
rose pl
- plural of rosa
Verb
rose
- third-person singular past historic of rodere
- feminine plural past participle of rodere
Anagrams
- erso, orse, reso
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?ro?.se/, [?ro?s??]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?ro.se/, [?r??s??]
Participle
r?se
- vocative masculine singular of r?sus
Lower Sorbian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?r?s?/, [?r?s?]
Noun
rose
- inflection of rosa:
- genitive singular
- nominative/accusative plural
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English r?se, from Latin rosa. Reinforced and remodelled on Old French rose, from the same Latin source.
Alternative forms
- roose, rosse, roos, ros
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?r??z(?)/, /?r?z(?)/
Noun
rose (plural roses or rosen)
- rose (plant belonging to the genus Rosa)
- rose (flower of the rose plant)
- (heraldry) The rose as a heraldic emblem.
- (figuratively) A morally upstanding and virtuous individual.
- reddish-purple; a rosy colour
Related terms
- rosee
- rosen
Descendants
- English: rose
- ? Marshallese: rooj
- Scots: rose
References
- “r??se, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.
See also
Etymology 2
Verb
rose
- Alternative form of rosen (“to boast”)
Norman
Etymology
From Latin rosa.
Pronunciation
Adjective
rose m or f
- (Jersey) pink (colour)
- Synonym: (Guernsey) couleur dé raose
Alternative forms
- rôse (Cotentin)
Noun
rose f (plural roses)
- rose (flower)
Derived terms
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin rosa, via Old Norse rós and rósa
Noun
rose f or m (definite singular rosa or rosen, indefinite plural roser, definite plural rosene)
- a rose (plant and flower of genus Rosa)
Derived terms
- rosemaling
- stokkrose
References
- “rose” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin rosa, via Old Norse rós and rósa
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /²ru?s?/
Noun
rose f (definite singular rosa, indefinite plural roser, definite plural rosene)
- a rose (plant and flower of genus Rosa)
Derived terms
- rosemåling, rosemaling
- stokkrose
Verb
rose (present tense rosar/roser, past tense rosa/roste, past participle rosa/rost, passive infinitive rosast, present participle rosande, imperative ros)
- alternative form of rosa
Further reading
- “rose” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old English
Etymology
From Latin rosa.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ro?.se/, [?ro?.ze]
Noun
r?se f (nominative plural r?san or r?sa)
- rose
Derived terms
- r?sen
Descendants
- Middle English: rose, roose, rosse, roos, ros
- English: rose
- ? Marshallese: rooj
- Scots: rose
- English: rose
References
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) , “r?se”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin rosa.
Noun
rose f (oblique plural roses, nominative singular rose, nominative plural roses)
- rose (flower)
Descendants
- French: rose (see there for further descendants)
- Norman: rose
- Picard: rose
- Walloon: rôze
- ? Middle Dutch: roos
- Dutch: roos
- Afrikaans: roos
- Limburgish: roeas
- Dutch: roos
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
rose (Cyrillic spelling ????)
- inflection of rosa:
- genitive singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural
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