Etymology of rose. The first recorded use of rose as a color name in English was in 1382.. The etymology of the color name rose is the same as that of the name of the rose flower. The name originates from Latin rosa, borrowed through Oscan from colonial Greek in southern Italy rhodon (Aeolic form wrodon), from Aramaic wurrdā, from Assyrian wurtinnu, from Old Iranian *warda (cf. Avestan ...
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