roseus

From rosa +‎ -eus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈro.se.us/, [ˈrɔs̠eʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈro.se.us/, [ˈrɔːs̬eus]

roseus (feminine rosea, neuter roseum); first/second-declension adjective

1. pink, rose-colored, rosy
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.593:

     “[...] roseōque haec īnsuper addidit ōre: [...].”

     “[...] and furthermore, she added these words from [her] rose-red lip[s]: [...].”

2. rose-, of or pertaining to roses

   Roseae convalles.

   A valley filled with roses.

3. (transferred meaning, especially of parts of the body) any thing blooming with youth; rosy, ruddy, blooming
   • Catullus 80

     Quid dicam, Gelli, quare rosea ista labella

     hiberna fiant candidiora nive,

     mane domo cum exis et cum te octava quiete

     e molli longo suscitat hora die?

     Nescio quid certest: an vere fama susurrat

     grandia te medii tenta vorare viri?

     Sic certest: clamant Victoris rupta miselli

     ilia, et emulso labra notata sero.

     What do you say, O Gellius, to why those rosy lips of yours

     become white as winter snow,

     in the morning when you go out of your house and when the eighth hour wakes you

     out of a nap from a long day?

     I do not know what is certain: can the rumor be true

     that you swallow the large thing men have in the middle?

     It must be so: They proclaim that poor Victor's member has burst,

     and the milky fluid is inscribed on your lips.

First/second-declension adjective.

• (of roses): rosāceus

• rosāceum (“the oil of roses”)

• Aromanian: arosh, rosh
• English: roseate
• French: rose
  • Romanian: roz
• Italian: roseo
• Romanian: roșu (possibly)
• Spanish: róseo

• “roseus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “roseus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• roseus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.