2007-06-13 06:51:12 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
"Rosa :"
"female proper name, from Latin "Rosa", lit. "rose" (see rose)."
"rose : "
"O.E. rose, from L. rosa (cf. It., Sp. rosa, Fr. rose; also source of Du. roos, Ger. Rose, Swed. ros, etc.), probably via It. and Gk. dialects from Gk. rhodon "rose" (Aeolic "wrodon"), ult. from Pers. "*vrda-". But cf. Tucker: "The rose was a special growth of Macedonia & the Thracian region as well as of Persia, & the Lat. & Gk. names prob. came from a Thraco-Phrygian source." Aramaic "warda" is from O.Pers.; the modern Pers. cognate, via the usual sound changes, is "gul", source of Turk. "gül" "rose." The ultimate source of all this may be PIE [Proto-Indo-European] "*wrdho-" "thorn, bramble." "
Online Etymology Dictionary : http://www.etymonline.com/
2007-06-13 07:12:23 · answer #1 · answered by Erik Van Thienen 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it means "pink" in spanish
2007-06-13 13:58:23 · answer #2 · answered by lmnopmc@sbcglobal.net 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋