Roß

Roß

See also: ross and Ross

German

Etymology 1

From Middle High German rāz, from Old High German rāza, from Proto-West Germanic *hrātu.[1]

Noun

Roß n (strong, genitive Roßes, plural Roße)

1. honeycomb

   Synonym: Wabe

Declension

Declension of Roß [neuter, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Roß	die	Roße
genitive	eines	des	Roßes	der	Roße
dative	einem	dem	Roß, Roße1	den	Roßen
accusative	ein	das	Roß	die	Roße

¹Now uncommon, see notes.

Alternative forms

• Roße f

Noun

Roß n (strong, genitive Rosses, plural Rösser or Rosse)

1. Formerly standard spelling of Ross which was deprecated in the spelling reform (Rechtschreibreform) of 1996 .

Further reading

• “Roß” in Duden online

References

1. Kroonen, Guus (2013), “hreto”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 245