rosin

See also: Rosin

English

Etymology

From Old French raisine, rousine, variants of résine. See resin.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɒ.zən/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɑ.zən/

Noun

rosin (countable and uncountable, plural rosins)

1. (organic chemistry) A solid form of resin, obtained from liquid resin by vaporizing its volatile components.
2. Resin

Synonyms

• colophony
• Greek pitch

Derived terms

• rosin paper

Translations

solid form of resin

• Bulgarian: колофон m (kolofón)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 松香 (zh) (sōngxiāng)

• Finnish: hartsi (fi)
• French: colophane (fr) f
• German: Kolophonium (de) n

• Irish: roisín m
• Japanese: ロジン (rojin)
• Russian: канифо́ль (ru) f (kanifólʹ)
• Spanish: colofonia f
• Tagalog: koloponya

liquid resin — see resin

Verb

rosin (third-person singular simple present rosins, present participle rosining, simple past and past participle rosined)

1. (transitive) To apply rosin to something.

   We waited expectantly as the guest violinist rosined his bow in preparation to playing.

Anagrams

• Irons, Orins, RINOs, Rison, Sinor, inros, irons, noirs, noris, ornis, roins, siron

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Danish

Etymology

From Middle Low German rosin, rosine, from Old French rosin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rosin/, [ʁoˈsiˀn]
• Rhymes: -in

Noun

rosin c (singular definite rosinen, plural indefinite rosiner)

1. raisin

Declension

Declension of rosin

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	rosin	rosinen	rosiner	rosinerne
genitive	rosins	rosinens	rosiners	rosinernes

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin racemus, via French raisin

Noun

rosin f, m (definite singular rosina or rosinen, indefinite plural rosiner, definite plural rosinene)

1. raisin

References

• “rosin” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin racemus, via French raisin

Noun

rosin f (definite singular rosina, indefinite plural rosiner, definite plural rosinene)

1. raisin

References

• “rosin” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Volapük

Noun

rosin (plural rosins)

1. raisin

Declension

declension of rosin

	singular	plural
nominative	rosin	rosins
genitive	rosina	rosinas
dative	rosine	rosines
accusative	rosini	rosinis
predicative	rosinu	rosinus
vocative	o rosin!	o rosins!