rosalia

See also: Rosalia and Rosalía

English

Etymology

Compare French rosalie. Doublet of rusalka.

Noun

rosalia (plural rosalias)

  1. (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from translingual Rosalia.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /roˈza.lja/
  • Rhymes: -alja
  • Hyphenation: ro‧sà‧lia

Noun

rosalia f (plural rosalie)

  1. any insect in the Rosalia taxonomic genus

Further reading
  • rosalia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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

  1. ceremony of hanging up the garlands of roses

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
  • ⇒ Albanian: rshajë
  • ⇒ Romanian: rozalii
  • → Byzantine Greek: ῥουσάλια (rhousália)
    • → Old Church Slavonic: роусалиѩ (rusaliję)
      • ⇒ Bulgarian: руса́лия (rusálija)
      • → Old East Slavic: русалиꙗ (rusalija)
        • ⇒ Russian: руса́лии (rusálii)
        • ⇒ Ukrainian: руса́лії (rusáliji)

References
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