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

• Belarusian: каніфо́ль f (kanifólʹ)
• Bulgarian: колофо́н 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)
• Korean: 송진 (songjin)
• Russian: канифо́ль (ru) f (kanifólʹ)
• Spanish: colofonia f
• Tagalog: koloponya
• Ukrainian: каніфо́ль f (kanifólʹ)

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); to rub or cover with rosin.

   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
vocative 1	o rosin!	o rosins!
predicative 2	rosinu	rosinus

• ¹ status as a case is disputed
• ² in some later, non-classical Volapük only