roseateadj.

Brit.

/ˈrəʊzɪət/,

/ˈrəʊzɪeɪt/, U.S.

/ˈroʊziᵻt/,

/ˈroʊziˌeɪt/

Forms: late Middle English–1600s roseat, 1500s–1600s rosiat, 1500s–1600s rosiate, 1600s– roseate.

Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from Latin. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin roseatus ; Latin roseus , -ate suffix².

Etymology: Either < post-classical Latin roseatus rosy (13th cent. in a British source; < classical Latin roseus (see roseous adj.) + -ātus -ate suffix²), or < classical Latin roseus (see roseous adj.) + -ate suffix².

1. Resembling or suggestive of a rose, esp. in colour; pink, light crimson; rose-red; rosy.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [adjective] > rose-red or -pink

rosenOE

rose-redOE

rosy1381

rosat?c1425

roseate1449

rosy-redc1450

rosetc1500

rosing?a1505

rose-coloured1526

rose-like1530

roseal1531

rosal1566

rosy-fingered1590

red rose1591

rosy-coloured1597

carnation1598

damask1598

rosied1600

damasked1609

rosical1631

roseac1638

rose1667

bloom-coloured1678

rose pink1778

rosaceous1783

rose-tinted1804

rose1806

rose1832

rose du Barry1856

blush-rose1888

J. Metham Amoryus & Cleopes (1916) l. 1763 (MED) My uyrgynyte to the I sacryfyse in this nede, With the roseat blod off pure maydynhede.

1589 T. Lodge Scillaes Metamorphosis sig. B4^v So maist thou..knit thy temples with a roseat twist.

1600 ‘Ignoto’ in Englands Helicon sig. Ti The rich adorned rayes of roseate rising morne.

1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. iv. 784 The morn reveals the roseate east.

1763 H. J. Pye in Poet. Calendar (ed. 2) II. 113 Each blooming shrub a roseate fragrance sheds.

1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho III. x. 344 The setting rays, that tinged their snowy summits with a roseate hue.

1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound ii. i. 63 Thro' yon peaks of cloudlike snow The roseate sun-light quivers.

1874 J. A. Symonds Sketches Italy & Greece (1898) I. 133 The roseate whiteness of ridged snow on Alps.

1915 Spatula Jan. 184/1 A high grade, pure oil should develop in a product a characteristic ‘roseate’ odor.

1942 E. Ferber Saratoga Trunk (new ed.) xi. 211 Clio's crimson sunshade cast a roseate glow over them both.

1999 I. Rankin Dead Souls ii. 13 His whole face took on a roseate glow.

2. Chiefly poetic. Formed or consisting of roses. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [adjective] > of or relating to roses > abounding in or made of roses

rosenOE

rosetc1450

rosy1508

roseal1577

roseate1607

1607 Fayre Mayde of Exchange sig. H4 Deuise sweete roseat Corronets.

1630 M. Drayton Muses Elizium iii. 21 The most renown'd With curious Roseat Anadems are crown'd.

1747 W. Collins Odes 21 To Thee we build a roseate Bow'r.

1783 J. O'Keeffe Birth-day 22 With roseate chaplets crown'd.

1847 H. Taylor Eve of Conquest 70 For me no roseate garlands twine, But wear them, Dearest, in my stead.

1909 A. J. Lockhart Birds of Cross 29 The songster of the roseate bower.

†3. Chiefly poetic. Rose-scented. Obsolete.

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the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fragrance > [adjective] > smelling of specific things

rosat?c1425

rosetc1450

rosed1559

musked1576

musky1580

rosya1586

myrrhed1591

muskifiedc1600

roseal1601

olibian1605

roseate1611

honeysuckled1640

myrrhate1659

muscatelline1673

myrrhy1686

muskish1706

thymy1746

rose-scented1759

civeted1785

lily-scented1796

ottoed1810

citron-scented1817

camphory1826

camphoraceous1845

tea-scented1845

frankincensed1860

rose-like1866

sagey1871

camphorous1881

osier-odoured1881

lemony1894

lavendery1896

patchoulied1925

1611 T. Heywood Golden Age i. sig. C When fell a pleasant shower, whose siluer drops Fil'd all the Altar with a roseate dew.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 646 Roseat Dews dispos'd All..to rest.

1720 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad VI. xxiii. 229 Celestial Venus hover'd o'er his Head, And roseate Unguents, heav'nly Fragrance! shed.

1837 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 272 With the soft perfume of roseate oil subdued the ocean smell.

4. figurative.

a. Rosy; happy, smiling.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pleasure > happiness > [adjective]

eadyeOE

i-selic888

i-sundfulc1000

seelya1272

graciousa1387

brighta1413

happy1477

beneurous1483

benewred1483

feliciousc1485

sunshine1594

faust1676

roseate1787

as happy (or jolly, etc.) as a sandboy1821

felicitous1824

happy as Larry1905

the mind > emotion > pleasure > cheerfulness > [adjective] > cheerful-looking

bonny1590

fowie1599

laughing-eyed1784

roseate1787

blithe-looking1846

1787 Ann. Reg. 1784–5 ii. Poetry 137 Wreathy smiles, and roseate pleasures, Are thy richest, sweetest treasures.

1818 Port Folio Sept. 234/2 I rioted in youth's unheedful dreams, And quaffed the cup of roseate health and joy.

1855 W. M. Thackeray Let. 2 July (1946) III. 460 I went..to see a Pantomime over which I fell into a sweet roseate slumber.

1873 W. Black Princess of Thule v. 83 How bright and roseate and happy she looked.

1887 R. L. Stevenson Misadv. J. Nicholson v At which meal the re-assembled family were to sit roseate.

1921 C. Wells Ptomaine Street x. 95 It was late afternoon, before he emerged, fresh, roseate and smiling, and imprinted a kiss on Warble's cheek that left the red stamp of a lip-sticked mouth.

1963 P. L. Miller tr. in Ring of Words (1973) 341 He sleeps a good roseate sleep under the radiant sky.

b. Rose-coloured, optimistic. Cf. rose-tinted adj.

ΚΠ

1826 Times 21 Sept. 2/2 We never yet saw a thorough going hack of the Government, that was not ready to snap the nose off any one, who dared to paint the national prospects, whether of finance, or commerce, or state policy, in aught but colours of ‘roseate hue’.

1868 M. E. Grant Duff Polit. Surv. 195 A very roseate account of the empire.

1881 G. Smith Lect. & Ess. 261 A persuasive person who could depict the merits of his scheme with roseate but delusive eloquence.

1929 F. Hackett Henry Eighth i. 12 His mind was still pearled with the roseate ideals of the middle ages.

1971 Times 10 Aug. 16/4 The credibility gap created by the Nixon Administration's roseate economic forecasts was demonstrably wider today.

2002 T. Nairn Pariah ix. 103 Britishness in those days was like the stable broader platform upon which migrants could lead sane and upwardly-mobile lives, punctuated by occasional returns to a native terrain made roseate in retrospect.

Compounds

C1. Modifying colour words to form nouns and adjectives, as roseate pink, roseate red.

ΚΠ

1579 T. Salter Mirrhor of Modestie sig. D.iiij^v Where it behoueth her to shewe her vertue, she shall bee readie but not to bolde, and by a sodaine blushyng, whiche immediatly will ouerspread her lillie cheekes with roseat read.

1593 Earl of Oxford in R. S. Phœnix Nest 63 This pleasant Lillie white, This taint of roseat red.

1797 R. Southey tr. F. de Quevedo Madrigal in Lett. from Spain xx. 327 She made thy lips so roseate red.

a1832 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XXI. 305/2 Chest and belly roseate red.

1929 Times 11 May 7/6 A train lined with roseate-pink and bordered with a bound net fold.

2003 Star-Tribune (Minneapolis, Minnesota) (Nexis) 25 Sept. t1 The foodstuffs are similarly gorgeous: sable-brown balsamic vinegar, tawny-gold Parmigiano-Reggiano, roseate-red prosciutto.

C2. Parasynthetic, as roseate-hued, roseate-tinted.

ΚΠ

1839 H. T. De la Beche Rep. Geol. Cornwall xv. 502 Among the innumerable varieties of elvans..we may notice that which is roseate-tinted.

1883 Amer. Mag. Apr. 483/2 The roseate-tinted clouds.

1957 Land Econ. 33 252/2 What can be said of this roseate-hued picture?

C3. In names of birds with partly pink plumage.

roseate cockatoo n. now rare = rose-breasted cockatoo n. at rose-breasted adj. Compounds.

ΚΠ

1842 G. Gulliver in tr. F. Gerber Elements Gen. & Minute Anat. Appendix. 63/2 (caption) Roseate Cockatoo (Plyctolophus Eos, Vig. et Horsf.).

1877 Nature 16 Aug. 336 A Roseate Cockatoo (Cacatua roseicapilla) from Australia.

2006 Cage & Aviary Birds 1 June 4/4 Stolen..from an aviary in..Hants.., a roseate cockatoo (galah) and two Maximilian's pionus.

roseate spoonbill n. an American spoonbill, Ajaia ajaja, found from the Gulf coasts to South America, having a bright pink body with red markings, a white neck, and a bare head.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Ciconiiformes (storks, etc.) > [noun] > family Threskiornithidae (ibises and spoonbills) > genus Platalea > platalea ajaja (roseate spoonbill)

roseate spoonbill1785

scarlet spoonbill1819

spatula1872

1785 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds III. i. 16 Roseate Spoonbill, Platalea Ajaja... The plumage is a fine rose-colour.

1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 264 Roseate Spoonbill. In full plumage rosy-red, whitening on neck.

1917 T. G. Pearson Birds Amer. I. 175/1 There is no large wading bird of North America that bears such brilliant plumage as the Roseate Spoonbill.

2001 Nature Photographer Summer 25/1 Birders and photographers from around the world visit Sanibel Island, Florida, with the hope of seeing and photographing roseate spoonbills.

roseate tern n. a tern, Sterna dougallii, which has a pale pink breast, long tail streamers, and a dark bill, and is found throughout the world.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Laridae (gulls and terns) > [noun] > member of genus Sterna (tern) > sterna dougalli (roseate tern)

pirr maw1744

roseate tern1813

1813 G. Montagu Suppl. Ornithol. Dict. at Tern—Roseate The length of the Roseate Tern is only fifteen inches and a half.

1862 C. A. Johns Brit. Birds 565 Roseate Terns have been discovered..in the mouth of the Clyde, Lancashire, and the Farn Islands.

1932 Auk 49 84 The Roseate tern (Sterna dougalli dougalli), at the time of the publication of Sage and Bishop's ‘Birds of Connecticut’, was a very rare bird in this State.

2002 Daily Tel. 7 June 10/3 The little tern, which winters in West Africa, is second only to the roseate tern in rarity among British nesting sea birds.

Derivatives

ˈroseately adv.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [adverb] > rose-red

rosily1809

roseately1834

aurorally1873

1834 W. Taylor in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) II. 556 Hope is like the first blush of dawn, roseately beautiful.

1859 Chambers's Jrnl. 11 128 The golden bars..Soon leave the earth, but linger roseately.

1923 B. G. Guerney tr. I. A. Bunin Dreams of Chang 80 The flashes of the distant thunder storm, gleaming roseately over the stars, were by now decreasing.

1932 Original 30 June 279/2 The sun's last beams Tinge roseately its melancholy gleams.

2002 Human Rights Q. 24 368 Hassan concludes his paper, somewhat roseately given his earlier comments, with a call for dialogue.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	roseate
释义	roseateadj. Brit. /ˈrəʊzɪət/, /ˈrəʊzɪeɪt/, U.S. /ˈroʊziᵻt/, /ˈroʊziˌeɪt/ Forms: late Middle English–1600s roseat, 1500s–1600s rosiat, 1500s–1600s rosiate, 1600s– roseate. Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from Latin. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin roseatus ; Latin roseus , -ate suffix². Etymology: Either < post-classical Latin roseatus rosy (13th cent. in a British source; < classical Latin roseus (see roseous adj.) + -ātus -ate suffix²), or < classical Latin roseus (see roseous adj.) + -ate suffix². 1. Resembling or suggestive of a rose, esp. in colour; pink, light crimson; rose-red; rosy. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [adjective] > rose-red or -pink rosenOE rose-redOE rosy1381 rosat?c1425 roseate1449 rosy-redc1450 rosetc1500 rosing?a1505 rose-coloured1526 rose-like1530 roseal1531 rosal1566 rosy-fingered1590 red rose1591 rosy-coloured1597 carnation1598 damask1598 rosied1600 damasked1609 rosical1631 roseac1638 rose1667 bloom-coloured1678 rose pink1778 rosaceous1783 rose-tinted1804 rose1806 rose1832 rose du Barry1856 blush-rose1888 J. Metham Amoryus & Cleopes (1916) l. 1763 (MED) My uyrgynyte to the I sacryfyse in this nede, With the roseat blod off pure maydynhede. 1589 T. Lodge Scillaes Metamorphosis sig. B4^v So maist thou..knit thy temples with a roseat twist. 1600 ‘Ignoto’ in Englands Helicon sig. Ti The rich adorned rayes of roseate rising morne. 1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. iv. 784 The morn reveals the roseate east. 1763 H. J. Pye in Poet. Calendar (ed. 2) II. 113 Each blooming shrub a roseate fragrance sheds. 1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho III. x. 344 The setting rays, that tinged their snowy summits with a roseate hue. 1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound ii. i. 63 Thro' yon peaks of cloudlike snow The roseate sun-light quivers. 1874 J. A. Symonds Sketches Italy & Greece (1898) I. 133 The roseate whiteness of ridged snow on Alps. 1915 Spatula Jan. 184/1 A high grade, pure oil should develop in a product a characteristic ‘roseate’ odor. 1942 E. Ferber Saratoga Trunk (new ed.) xi. 211 Clio's crimson sunshade cast a roseate glow over them both. 1999 I. Rankin Dead Souls ii. 13 His whole face took on a roseate glow. 2. Chiefly poetic. Formed or consisting of roses. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [adjective] > of or relating to roses > abounding in or made of roses rosenOE rosetc1450 rosy1508 roseal1577 roseate1607 1607 Fayre Mayde of Exchange sig. H4 Deuise sweete roseat Corronets. 1630 M. Drayton Muses Elizium iii. 21 The most renown'd With curious Roseat Anadems are crown'd. 1747 W. Collins Odes 21 To Thee we build a roseate Bow'r. 1783 J. O'Keeffe Birth-day 22 With roseate chaplets crown'd. 1847 H. Taylor Eve of Conquest 70 For me no roseate garlands twine, But wear them, Dearest, in my stead. 1909 A. J. Lockhart Birds of Cross 29 The songster of the roseate bower. †3. Chiefly poetic. Rose-scented. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fragrance > [adjective] > smelling of specific things rosat?c1425 rosetc1450 rosed1559 musked1576 musky1580 rosya1586 myrrhed1591 muskifiedc1600 roseal1601 olibian1605 roseate1611 honeysuckled1640 myrrhate1659 muscatelline1673 myrrhy1686 muskish1706 thymy1746 rose-scented1759 civeted1785 lily-scented1796 ottoed1810 citron-scented1817 camphory1826 camphoraceous1845 tea-scented1845 frankincensed1860 rose-like1866 sagey1871 camphorous1881 osier-odoured1881 lemony1894 lavendery1896 patchoulied1925 1611 T. Heywood Golden Age i. sig. C When fell a pleasant shower, whose siluer drops Fil'd all the Altar with a roseate dew. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 646 Roseat Dews dispos'd All..to rest. View more context for this quotation 1720 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad VI. xxiii. 229 Celestial Venus hover'd o'er his Head, And roseate Unguents, heav'nly Fragrance! shed. 1837 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 272 With the soft perfume of roseate oil subdued the ocean smell. 4. figurative. a. Rosy; happy, smiling. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > happiness > [adjective] eadyeOE i-selic888 i-sundfulc1000 seelya1272 graciousa1387 brighta1413 happy1477 beneurous1483 benewred1483 feliciousc1485 sunshine1594 faust1676 roseate1787 as happy (or jolly, etc.) as a sandboy1821 felicitous1824 happy as Larry1905 the mind > emotion > pleasure > cheerfulness > [adjective] > cheerful-looking bonny1590 fowie1599 laughing-eyed1784 roseate1787 blithe-looking1846 1787 Ann. Reg. 1784–5 ii. Poetry 137 Wreathy smiles, and roseate pleasures, Are thy richest, sweetest treasures. 1818 Port Folio Sept. 234/2 I rioted in youth's unheedful dreams, And quaffed the cup of roseate health and joy. 1855 W. M. Thackeray Let. 2 July (1946) III. 460 I went..to see a Pantomime over which I fell into a sweet roseate slumber. 1873 W. Black Princess of Thule v. 83 How bright and roseate and happy she looked. 1887 R. L. Stevenson Misadv. J. Nicholson v At which meal the re-assembled family were to sit roseate. 1921 C. Wells Ptomaine Street x. 95 It was late afternoon, before he emerged, fresh, roseate and smiling, and imprinted a kiss on Warble's cheek that left the red stamp of a lip-sticked mouth. 1963 P. L. Miller tr. in Ring of Words (1973) 341 He sleeps a good roseate sleep under the radiant sky. b. Rose-coloured, optimistic. Cf. rose-tinted adj. ΚΠ 1826 Times 21 Sept. 2/2 We never yet saw a thorough going hack of the Government, that was not ready to snap the nose off any one, who dared to paint the national prospects, whether of finance, or commerce, or state policy, in aught but colours of ‘roseate hue’. 1868 M. E. Grant Duff Polit. Surv. 195 A very roseate account of the empire. 1881 G. Smith Lect. & Ess. 261 A persuasive person who could depict the merits of his scheme with roseate but delusive eloquence. 1929 F. Hackett Henry Eighth i. 12 His mind was still pearled with the roseate ideals of the middle ages. 1971 Times 10 Aug. 16/4 The credibility gap created by the Nixon Administration's roseate economic forecasts was demonstrably wider today. 2002 T. Nairn Pariah ix. 103 Britishness in those days was like the stable broader platform upon which migrants could lead sane and upwardly-mobile lives, punctuated by occasional returns to a native terrain made roseate in retrospect. Compounds C1. Modifying colour words to form nouns and adjectives, as roseate pink, roseate red. ΚΠ 1579 T. Salter Mirrhor of Modestie sig. D.iiij^v Where it behoueth her to shewe her vertue, she shall bee readie but not to bolde, and by a sodaine blushyng, whiche immediatly will ouerspread her lillie cheekes with roseat read. 1593 Earl of Oxford in R. S. Phœnix Nest 63 This pleasant Lillie white, This taint of roseat red. 1797 R. Southey tr. F. de Quevedo Madrigal in Lett. from Spain xx. 327 She made thy lips so roseate red. a1832 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XXI. 305/2 Chest and belly roseate red. 1929 Times 11 May 7/6 A train lined with roseate-pink and bordered with a bound net fold. 2003 Star-Tribune (Minneapolis, Minnesota) (Nexis) 25 Sept. t1 The foodstuffs are similarly gorgeous: sable-brown balsamic vinegar, tawny-gold Parmigiano-Reggiano, roseate-red prosciutto. C2. Parasynthetic, as roseate-hued, roseate-tinted. ΚΠ 1839 H. T. De la Beche Rep. Geol. Cornwall xv. 502 Among the innumerable varieties of elvans..we may notice that which is roseate-tinted. 1883 Amer. Mag. Apr. 483/2 The roseate-tinted clouds. 1957 Land Econ. 33 252/2 What can be said of this roseate-hued picture? C3. In names of birds with partly pink plumage. roseate cockatoo n. now rare = rose-breasted cockatoo n. at rose-breasted adj. Compounds. ΚΠ 1842 G. Gulliver in tr. F. Gerber Elements Gen. & Minute Anat. Appendix. 63/2 (caption) Roseate Cockatoo (Plyctolophus Eos, Vig. et Horsf.). 1877 Nature 16 Aug. 336 A Roseate Cockatoo (Cacatua roseicapilla) from Australia. 2006 Cage & Aviary Birds 1 June 4/4 Stolen..from an aviary in..Hants.., a roseate cockatoo (galah) and two Maximilian's pionus. roseate spoonbill n. an American spoonbill, Ajaia ajaja, found from the Gulf coasts to South America, having a bright pink body with red markings, a white neck, and a bare head. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Ciconiiformes (storks, etc.) > [noun] > family Threskiornithidae (ibises and spoonbills) > genus Platalea > platalea ajaja (roseate spoonbill) roseate spoonbill1785 scarlet spoonbill1819 spatula1872 1785 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds III. i. 16 Roseate Spoonbill, Platalea Ajaja... The plumage is a fine rose-colour. 1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 264 Roseate Spoonbill. In full plumage rosy-red, whitening on neck. 1917 T. G. Pearson Birds Amer. I. 175/1 There is no large wading bird of North America that bears such brilliant plumage as the Roseate Spoonbill. 2001 Nature Photographer Summer 25/1 Birders and photographers from around the world visit Sanibel Island, Florida, with the hope of seeing and photographing roseate spoonbills. roseate tern n. a tern, Sterna dougallii, which has a pale pink breast, long tail streamers, and a dark bill, and is found throughout the world. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Laridae (gulls and terns) > [noun] > member of genus Sterna (tern) > sterna dougalli (roseate tern) pirr maw1744 roseate tern1813 1813 G. Montagu Suppl. Ornithol. Dict. at Tern—Roseate The length of the Roseate Tern is only fifteen inches and a half. 1862 C. A. Johns Brit. Birds 565 Roseate Terns have been discovered..in the mouth of the Clyde, Lancashire, and the Farn Islands. 1932 Auk 49 84 The Roseate tern (Sterna dougalli dougalli), at the time of the publication of Sage and Bishop's ‘Birds of Connecticut’, was a very rare bird in this State. 2002 Daily Tel. 7 June 10/3 The little tern, which winters in West Africa, is second only to the roseate tern in rarity among British nesting sea birds. Derivatives ˈroseately adv. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [adverb] > rose-red rosily1809 roseately1834 aurorally1873 1834 W. Taylor in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) II. 556 Hope is like the first blush of dawn, roseately beautiful. 1859 Chambers's Jrnl. 11 128 The golden bars..Soon leave the earth, but linger roseately. 1923 B. G. Guerney tr. I. A. Bunin Dreams of Chang 80 The flashes of the distant thunder storm, gleaming roseately over the stars, were by now decreasing. 1932 Original 30 June 279/2 The sun's last beams Tinge roseately its melancholy gleams. 2002 Human Rights Q. 24 368 Hassan concludes his paper, somewhat roseately given his earlier comments, with a call for dialogue. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). roseatev. Brit. /ˈrəʊzɪeɪt/, U.S. /ˈroʊziˌeɪt/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: roseate adj. Etymology: < roseate adj. Compare post-classical Latin roseare to make rosy, to make red with blood (13th cent. in British sources). †1. intransitive. To flower or bud in the manner of a rose. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΚΠ 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Roseggiare,..to roseate, to flower or bud as Roses. 2. transitive. To make roseate or rosy; to cover with roses (in various senses). Frequently in past participle. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > making or becoming red > make red [verb (transitive)] > make rose-red rose1610 rosy1652 roseate1809 damask1863 1809 J. Savage Librarian 1 Oct. 179 It stands upon arches considerably more pointed and higher than the others, consisting of many members, having the capitals roseated, and altogether of different construction from the rest of the Church. 1852 W. Jerdan Autobiogr. II. ix. 100 He was a fine example of a rubicund Scotchman; fattened and roseated in London. 1898 T. De W. Talmage in Christian Her. 20 Apr. 344/4 The millennial June which shall roseate all the earth. 1911 H. G. Schuette Athonia ix. 251 The clouds in the east are cleared away and Aurora is roseating the restless expanse of ocean. 1946 Burlington Mag. Oct. 243/2 Small geometrical shapes, sometimes scalloped or roseated, were placed on the flanks of animals. 2001 C. Rosenthal It doesn't have to be Me 122 A hose-like prick that is unplumed at its base, only lightly roseated. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1449v.1611
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roseateadj.

Compounds

Derivatives

roseatev.