different between rosier vs roster

English

Etymology 1

Adjective

rosier

1. comparative form of rosy: more rosy

Etymology 2

From Old French rosier.

Noun

rosier (plural rosiers)

1. (archaic) rosebush
   • 1548, Edward Hall, The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancastre and Yorke:

     on the top ?tood five trees: the fir?t was an olive tree, on which hanged a ?hield of the armes of the church of Rome; the ?econd was a pyne aple tree, with the arms of the emperor; the third was a ro?yer, with the armes of England; the fourth a braunche of lylies, bearing the armes of France; and the fifth a pomegranet tree, bearing the armes of Spayn

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, book 2, canto 9, verse 19:

     Ne other tire ?he on her head did weare,
     But crowned with a garland of ?weete ro?iere.

   • 1801, Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer:

     The single nightingale
     Perch’d in the rosier by, so richly ton’d,
     That never from that most melodious bird,
     Singing a love-song to his brooding mate,
     Did Thracian shepherd by the grave
     Of Orpheus hear a sweeter melody

Anagrams

• Rories

French

Etymology

From Old French rosier. Equivalent to rose +? -ier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o.zje/

Noun

rosier m (plural rosiers)

1. rosebush

Further reading

• “rosier” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Etymology

rose +? -ier

Noun

rosier m (oblique plural rosiers, nominative singular rosiers, nominative plural rosier)

1. rosebush

Descendants

• French: rosier

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch rooster (“gridiron, table, list”), from Middle Dutch roosten (“to roast”). More at roast.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???st?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???st?/, /???st?/
• Rhymes: -?st?(?)

Noun

roster (plural rosters)

1. A list of individuals or groups, usually for an organization of some kind such as military officers and enlisted personnel enrolled in a particular unit; a muster roll; a sports team, with the names of players who are eligible to be placed in the lineup for a particular game; or a list of students officially enrolled in a school or class.
   • 2013, William Brinkley, The Last Ship (Penguin, ?ISBN), page 132:

     [So many of] the crew, men and officers alike, read them as to make me feel safe in asserting unreservedly that the Nathan James numbered in her company more Turgenev scholars than any other vessel on the United States Navy's entire roster of ships.

2. A list of the jobs to be done by members of an organization and often with the date/time that they are expected to do them.

Translations

See also

• rota

Verb

roster (third-person singular simple present rosters, present participle rostering, simple past and past participle rostered)

1. To place the name of (a person) on a roster.

Translations

References

• Trains: Railroad locomotive rosters

Anagrams

• Storer, Torres, re-sort, resort, retros, sorter, storer

Middle English

Alternative forms

• roostare

Etymology

From rosten +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r??st?r(?)/

Noun

roster

1. (rare, Late Middle English) A roaster (a person who roasts).

Descendants

• English: roaster

References

• “r?ster(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-09.

Spanish

Noun

roster m (plural rosters or roster)

1. (baseball) roster