rosmarinus

See also: Rosmarinus and ros marinus

Latin

Rosmarinus officinalis

Alternative forms

• rōs marīnus
• marīnus rōs

Etymology

From rōs (“dew, moisture”) +‎ marīnus (“marine, of the sea”). Literally meaning "dew of the sea".

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [roːs.maˈriː.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [roz.maˈriː.nus]

Noun

rōsmarīnus m (genitive rōrismarīnī or rōsmarīnī); variously declined, third declension, second declension

1. (botany) rosemary (Salvia rosmarinus, syn. Rosmarinus officinalis)

Declension

Third-declension noun with a second-declension noun or second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	rōsmarīnus	rōrēsmarīnī rōsmarīnī
genitive	rōrismarīnī rōsmarīnī	rōrummarīnōrum rōsmarīnōrum
dative	rōrīmarīnō rōsmarīnō	rōribusmarīnīs rōsmarīnīs
accusative	rōremmarīnum rōsmarīnum	rōrēsmarīnōs rōsmarīnōs
ablative	rōremarīnō rōsmarīnō	rōribusmarīnīs rōsmarīnīs
vocative	rōsmarīne	rōrēsmarīnī rōsmarīnī

Synonyms

• aposplēnos, libanōtis, macaerinthe (mentioned by Pseudo-Apulejus)

Hyponyms

• zēa (mentioned by Pseudo-Apulejus)

Descendants

• Asturian: romeru
• Breton: roumarin
• Catalan: romaní
• Dalmatian: lusmarin
• English: rosemary
• Esperanto: rosmareno
• French: romarin
• Friulian: osmarìn
• Galician: romeu
• German: Rosmarin
• Italian: rosmarino, ramerino
• Mirandese: rusmenino, rosmanino
• Norman: romathîn
• Occitan: romanin
• Portuguese: rosmaninho, resmaninho, rosmarinho, reismarinho
• Romanian: rozmarin
• Romansch: rosmarin
• Sardinian: romasinu
• Sicilian: rosamarina, rosmarina
• Spanish: romero
• Translingual: Rosmarinus, Salvia rosmarinus
• Venetan: rosmarin, sgolmarin

References

• “"Ros marinus, marinus ros, or in one word, rosmarinus" s.v. "rōs, rōris, m."”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “rosmarinus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1369.
  “ros”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1369.