rosen

English

Etymology

From Middle English rosen (“rosy”), from Old English rōsen (“of roses; rosy”), equivalent to rose +‎ -en.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊzən

Adjective

rosen (comparative more rosen, superlative most rosen)

1. (obsolete or archaic) Made of or consisting of roses.
   • 1662, Alexander Petrie, A Compendious History of the Catholick Church:

     In the year 1577. he confirmed the Fraternity of the Virgine Mary, and by Bull he gave Indulgences for a year unto all who would say a Rosen crown unto the Virgine, that is, if they would say five Paternosters, and fifty Ave Maryas.

   • 2002, Marsha Keith Schuchard, Restoring the Temple of Vision:

     Prediction, the Image whereof is a Crowne with a Rose, or a Rosen Crown, with the letter F seated or planted upon the same […] a certaine English Prince, whose name should begin with F, as for example, Frederike […]

2. (obsolete or archaic) Rosy; rose-coloured; ruddy.

References

• “rosen”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Ensor, Neros, Norse, Roens, Rones, neros, noser, oners, renos, senor, seron, señor, snore

Cornish

Noun

rosen f

1. singulative of ros (“roses”)

Danish

Noun

rosen c

1. definite singular of rose

Japanese

Romanization

rosen

1. Rōmaji transcription of ろせん

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʀoːzən/

Etymology 1

From Middle High German rāsen. Compare German rasen, Dutch razen.

Verb

rosen (third-person singular present roost, past participle geroost, auxiliary verb sinn)

1. to be angry

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Etymology 2

Fossiled present participle of etymology 1. Equivalent to German rasend, Dutch razend.

Adjective

rosen (masculine rosenen, neuter rosent, comparative méi rosen, superlative am rosensten)

1. angry, furious

Declension

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hrósa, from Proto-Germanic *hrōþsōną.

Alternative forms

• ros, rose, rosenn
• (Northern) royse, rowse, ruse, ruson, ruysse

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈroːzən/

Verb

rosen (third-person singular simple present roseth, present participle rosende, rosynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle rosed)

2. To boast; to self-aggrandise.
3. To flatter; to praise.
4. (rare) To talk, to say.

Conjugation

Descendants

• English: roose
• Scots: ruise

References

• “rọ̄sen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

From Old English rōsen and Old French rosin; equivalent to rose +‎ -en (“made of”).

Alternative forms

• rosyn, rosyne

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈroːzən/, /rɔˈziːn/, /ˈrɔːzin/, /ˈrɔːzən/

Adjective

rosen (plural and weak singular rosene)

2. rosy (made of or like rose)

Descendants

• English: rosen

References

• “rō̆sen(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 3

From Old English rōsan; equivalent to rose +‎ -en (plural suffix).

Noun

rosen

2. plural of rose

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• rosa

Noun

rosen m or f

1. definite masculine singular of rose

Old English

Etymology

From rōse +‎ -en.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈroː.sen/,

Adjective

rōsen

1. (relational) rose; rosy

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: rosen
  • English: rosen

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “rósen”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Swedish

Noun

rosen

1. definite singular of ros

Anagrams

• orens, ornes, reson, senor