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[Cãlin]

@ zcalin (or @ anyone who speaks romanian ) : what is most used? "rozã" or "trandafir" ? i tend to use the second one...and i must confess i almost never heard "rozã"

Roză is extremely poetic and consequenlty almost never used. I myself have never used this word; it appears in some 19th century and early 20th century poems. I recommend "trandafir".

[Sisyphe]

Latin :

rosa

-> rosa, rosa, rosam, rosae, rosae, rosa, rosae, rosae, rosas, rosarum, rosis, rosis ! La première chose qu'on apprend en latin, enfin qu'on apprenait autrefois, y compris en chanson (cf. J. Brel).
("rosa" is the well-known example in latin grammars for the first declension. Students learnt it ahead as a song - but the order of cases does be quite different in english and american use).

Grec ancien/ancient Greek :

το ροδον

(Au passage, les deux mots sont sans doute apparentés et empruntés à une autre langue, mais laquelle ? - Both words must have the same ancestor in a non-indo-european tongue, but which one ?)

esperanto :

rozo

[ANTHOS]

I would say that 'triantafilo' is originally greek, since its literal meaning in Greek is 30-leaved.

In Modern Greek, the only usage of 'rodho' that springs to mind is in the word for rosewater (added to desserts,such as 'mahalebi')

[fan4battle]

Bulgarian: Роза (roza)

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