rosalia
See also: Rosalia and Rosalía
English
Etymology
Compare French rosalie. Doublet of rusalka.
Noun
rosalia (plural rosalias)
- (music) A form of melody in which a phrase or passage is successively repeated, each time a step or half-step higher; a melodic sequence.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for rosalia in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Anagrams
- Ariolas, solaria
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from translingual Rosalia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /roˈza.lja/
- Rhymes: -alja
- Hyphenation: ro‧sà‧lia
Noun
rosalia f (plural rosalie)
- any insect in the Rosalia taxonomic genus
Further reading
- rosalia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
Etymology
From rosāles [escae] ("an annual feast when tombs were adorned with rose garlands"), from rosa (“rose”).
Noun
rōsālia f (genitive rōsāliae); first declension
- ceremony of hanging up the garlands of roses
Declension
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | rōsālia | rōsāliae |
| Genitive | rōsāliae | rōsāliārum |
| Dative | rōsāliae | rōsāliīs |
| Accusative | rōsāliam | rōsāliās |
| Ablative | rōsāliā | rōsāliīs |
| Vocative | rōsālia | rōsāliae |
Descendants
- ⇒ Albanian: rshajë
- ⇒ Romanian: rozalii
- → Byzantine Greek: ῥουσάλια (rhousália)
- → Old Church Slavonic: роусалиѩ (rusaliję)
- ⇒ Bulgarian: руса́лия (rusálija)
- → Old East Slavic: русалиꙗ (rusalija)
- ⇒ Russian: руса́лии (rusálii)
- ⇒ Ukrainian: руса́лії (rusáliji)
- → Old Church Slavonic: роусалиѩ (rusaliję)
References
- rosalia 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)