rosette

See also: Rosette and rôsette

English

WOTD – 16 June 2009

A rosette made of ribbon.

An architectural rosette.

Etymology

Borrowed from French rosette.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹəʊˈzɛt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɹoʊˈzɛt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛt

A rosette pattern in latte art.

rosette pastries

Noun

rosette (plural rosettes)

1. An imitation of a rose by means of ribbon or other material, used especially as an ornament or a badge.
2. (architecture) An ornament in the form of a rose or roundel, much used in decoration.
3. (music) A decorative inlay surrounding the sound hole of a guitar.
4. A red color.
5. A rose burner.
6. (botany) One or more whorls of leaves, clustered tightly at the base of a plant.
7. (botany) A plant growth form in which the plant grows outward in all directions for a short distance, producing a small round shape.
8. (zoology) Any structure having a flowerlike form; especially, the group of five broad ambulacra on the upper side of the spatangoid and clypeastroid sea urchins.
9. (zoology) A flowerlike color marking, as on the leopard.
10. A floral pattern in latte art.
11. (medicine) A clustered formation of tumor cells.
12. (cooking) A thin, cookie-like, deep-fried Scandinavian pastry, made using an iron, which resembles a rose blossom.
13. (cooking) A rose shape piped using frosting, most commonly buttercream.
14. A form of knot.
15. A disc formed by throwing water on molten metal.

    Synonym: rondelle

16. (oceanography) A rosette sampler.
17. (pathology) Synonym of worm-star

Synonyms

• (red color): roset
• (latte art): rosetta

Derived terms

• Homer-Wright rosette
• rosette bok choy
• rosette burner
• rosetted
• rosette sampler
• rosette scan
• rosette seeker
• rosettelike
• rosetting

Related terms

• rose

Translations

ornamental imitation of a rose

• Bulgarian: розетка (bg) f (rozetka)
• Czech: rozeta f, růžice f
• Finnish: ruusuke (fi)
• Italian: coccarda (it) f
• Norwegian: rosett m
• Polish: rozeta (pl) f
• Russian: розе́тта (ru) f (rozɛ́tta)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: розета f

architectural ornament

• Bulgarian: розетка (bg) f (rozetka)
• Czech: rozeta f, růžice f
• Finnish: ruusuke (fi)
• Norwegian: rosett m
• Polish: rozeta (pl) f
• Russian: розе́тта (ru) f (rozɛ́tta)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: розета f

• Slovene: rozeta f

A red color

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ружичаста

rose burner — see rose burner

botany: one or more whorls of leaves

• Czech: růžice f
• Finnish: ruusuke (fi)
• Russian: розе́тта (ru) f (rozɛ́tta)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: розета f

botany: type of plant growth

• Czech: růžice f
• Finnish: ruusuke (fi)
• Serbo-Croatian: розета

zoology: structure having a flowerlike form

• Finnish: ruusuke (fi)
• Russian: розе́тта (ru) f (rozɛ́tta)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: розета f

zoology: flowerlike color marking

• Finnish: täplä (fi)

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 “rosette”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• tetrose

French

Etymology

From rose +‎ -ette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁo.zɛt/

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Noun

rosette f (plural rosettes)

1. rosette

Descendants

• → Polish: rozeta

Further reading

• “rosette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• tétrose

Italian

Noun

rosette f

1. plural of rosetta

Anagrams

• estorte, resetto, resettò, setterò, settore, testerò, testore