rosetum

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rosētum.

Noun

rosetum (plural roseta)

  1. 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

Noun

rosētum n (genitive rosētī); second declension

  1. 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

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.