rosalia
English
Etymology
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
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
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
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)