rosetum
English
Etymology
Noun
rosetum (plural roseta)
- A rose garden.
- 1870, The Florist and Pomologist: A Pictorial Monthly Magazine, page 169:
- The Weeping Rose should stand singly in the rosetum, or on the lawn.
Latin
Etymology
rosa (“a rose”) + -ētum (“grove”)
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [rɔˈseː.tũː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [roˈs̬ɛː.t̪um]
Noun
rosētum n (genitive rosētī); second declension
- a rose garden; a bed of roses
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | rosētum | rosēta |
| genitive | rosētī | rosētōrum |
| dative | rosētō | rosētīs |
| accusative | rosētum | rosēta |
| ablative | rosētō | rosētīs |
| vocative | rosētum | rosēta |
Related terms
References
- “rosetum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “rosetum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "rosetum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- rosetum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.