rostan

Old Irish

Etymology

From rós (“rose”).

Noun

rostan (gender unknown)

1. (hapax) a rose garden, rose plantation
   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 53^a4

     rostan glosses rosetum

References

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “rostan”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Spanish

Verb

rostan

1. inflection of rostir:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative