English → Latin
“rose” in Latin
rosarose (plant of the genus Rosa or its flower); dear, rose, sweetheart, love (word of endearment)rosāceusmade of roses; having the colour or fragrance of rosesMaiusthe month of May, May
The English word rose itself goes back to Latin rosa.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
rose
rosa (the plant and the flower): rosae flos (the flower). A rose-hed, area rosis consita: of roses, rosaceus: oil of roses, oleum rosaceum or rhodinum (Plin.); or rosaceum only: rose-leaf, rosae floris folium: the scent of roses, odores qui afflantur e rosis (after Cic., Cat., Maj., 17, 59); *odor rosarum: to lie among roses, in rosa jacere (Sen., Ep., 36, 9); vivere in aeterna rosa (Mart., 8, 77). Of or belonging to a rose, roseus: rose color, color roseus: roses on the cheeks, color egregius (Cic., Fin., 2, 20, 64).
Rose
Rosa, -ae (f.)
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for rose?
- The usual Latin words for “rose” are rosa, rosāceus, Maius. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.