rosc

See also: ROSC, rosć, rość, and róść

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Irish rosc (“rhetorical composition”), from Old Irish rosc (“short poem, ode”).

Noun

rosc (countable and uncountable, plural roscada)

1. An ancient form of unrhymed Old Irish verse that uses alliteration and meter.
   • 1995, Calvert Watkins, How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics, →ISBN, page 255:

     Liam Breatnach observed in an important article (Breatnach 1984, with references) that 'Old Irish texts appear in three forms: prose, rhyming syllabic verse, and rosc. The simplest definition of rosc is that it is neither of the other two.'

   • 1997, Maria Tymoczko, The Irish Ulysses, →ISBN, page 307:

     Elsewhere we find descriptions of the most archaic Irish poetry, the passages of obscure poetry called rosc. Sigerson analyzes rosc as rhythmical though unrhymed verse designed to express or to stir up vehement enthusiasm and claims it is the first example of blank verse (Bards of the Gael and Gall 25); Hull characterizes rosc as a declamatory, alliterative blank verse where changes of meter correspond to changes of idea (Text Book I: 202-4).

   • 2005, Theodore William Moody, Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, Francis X. Martin, A New History of Ireland - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 446:

     Likewise, the 'Cauldron of poesy' and 'Bretha Déin Chécht' both contain prose, rosc, and rhyming syllabic verse.

   • 2016, Maria Tymoczko, Translation in a Postcolonial Context, →ISBN:

     Until the last few decades, however, many of the roscada were interpreted as prose, but recent scholarship has suggested that most, if not all, are poems composed according to archaic metrical principles that had been largely superseded by the eighth century.

Anagrams

• CORS, CORs, OCRs, ORCs, ROCs, cors, orcs, rocs

Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish rosc (“eye”).

Noun

rosc m (genitive singular roisc, nominative plural roisc)

1. eye

Declension

Declension of rosc (first declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative rosc roisc vocative a roisc a rosca genitive roisc rosc dative rosc roisc forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an rosc na roisc genitive an roisc na rosc dative leis an rosc don rosc leis na roisc

Derived terms

• rinn roisc (“eyebright”)

Etymology 2

From Old Irish rosc (“short poem, ode”).

Noun

rosc m (genitive singular roisc, nominative plural roisc)

1. rhetorical composition, rhapsodical chant

Declension

Declension of rosc (first declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative rosc roisc vocative a roisc a rosca genitive roisc rosc dative rosc roisc forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an rosc na roisc genitive an roisc na rosc dative leis an rosc don rosc leis na roisc

Derived terms

• rosc catha (“battle-chant; war-cry”)
• rosc ceoil (“rhapsody”)

Descendants

• → English: rosc (learned)

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “rosc”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 rosc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 rosc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrosk/

Etymology 1

Unknown.

Noun

rosc n or m (genitive roisc or ruisc)

1. eye

   Synonym: súil

   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 56^a18

     ind roisc du·n-écomnacht-su dún, a Dǽ

     of the eye that you sg have given us, O God

Declension

Neuter o-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	roscN	roscN	roscL, rosca
vocative	roscN	roscN	roscL, rosca
accusative	roscN	roscN	roscL, rosca
genitive	roiscL, ruisc	rosc	roscN
dative	ruscL	roscaib	roscaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: rosc
  • Irish: rosc

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 rosc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Etymology 2

Related to Old Irish seichid (“to declare”). It could be the verbal noun of an unattested verb *ro·seich, from *ɸro- + *sekʷeti (“to say”), compare cosc (“admonition”) and aithesc (“reply”). For a similar construction compare Latin inquam and Ancient Greek ἐνέπω (enépō).

Noun

rosc ?

1. a short poem, ode or chant
2. a legal maxim or award

Derived terms

• roscad (“legal maxim”)

Descendants

• Middle Irish: rosc
  • Irish: rosc
    • → English: rosc (learned)

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 rosc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language