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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=116–27 BC, Varro|origins=la rosa}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈrɔ.se.ʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈrɔː.s̬e.us]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''roseus''' (feminine rosea, neuter roseum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|rosa|-eus|t1=rose]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) The OLD compares [[grc|ῥόδον|tr=rhódon|t=rose]], and Wiktionary takes [[m|la|rosa]] as probably from a variant of the Greek word, perhaps through another Italic language such as Oscan or from an Aeolic form.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Varro,^(Köbler 2010) who speaks of a very small mouth, rosy, with laughter held back.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means made of roses, as a garland in the ''Copa'' and Seneca, or crowns of roses in Martial.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) More often it is rose-coloured, covering a wide range of reds: Catullus has a coverlet dyed with rosy purple, and Pliny the Elder rosy feathers.^(OLD 2012) It is used especially of the sky at dawn and of the sun: Lucretius has the rosy sun, and Virgil Aurora with her rosy chariot.^(OLD 2012) Of the human body it often suggests youth, as in Virgil's rosy mouth and Horace's rosy neck.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short note that it is frequent in the Augustan poets.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin glosses it roseate.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro of a rosy mouth.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of the rosy sun.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81/79–52/50 BC – Catullus of rose-dyed purple.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of Aurora's rosy chariot.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Made of roses, of roses.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # [[m|en|rose-coloured|alt=Rose-coloured]], [[m|en|rosy]], pink; of dawn and the sun, rosy.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Of the body, rosy, blooming with youth.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[rosa]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ The OLD has a separate adjective ''Rōseus'' “of Rosea”,^(OLD 2012) which Köbler finds in Virgil.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}