rosemary
pronunciation
How to pronounce rosemary in British English:
UK [ˈrəʊzməri]
How to pronounce rosemary in American English:
US [ˈroʊzmeri]
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- Noun:
- widely cultivated for its fragrant gray-green leaves used in cooking and in perfumery
- extremely pungent leaves used fresh or dried as seasoning for especially meats
Word Origin
- rosemary
- rosemary: [15] Originally, rosemary had no connection with either ‘roses’ or ‘Mary’. Etymologically it means ‘sea-dew’. It comes, probably via Old French rosmarin, from late Latin rōsmarīnum. This in turn was a conflation of Latin rōs marīnus, rōs meaning ‘dew’ and marīnus ‘of the sea’ (an allusion to the fact that the plant grew near sea coasts). The word originally entered English in the 14th century as rosmarine, but association with rose and Mary (the Virgin Mary, no doubt) led to its alteration to rosemary.=> marine, mere, mermaid
- rosemary (n.)
- late 14c., earlier rosmarine (c. 1300), from Latin rosmarinus, literally "dew of the sea" (compare French romarin), from ros "dew" + marinus (see marine (adj.)). Perhaps so called because it grew near coasts. Form altered in English by influence of rose and Mary. Latin ros is from PIE *ers- "to be wet" (cognates: Lithuanian rasa, Old Church Slavonic rosa "dew," Sanskrit rasah "sap, juice, fluid, essence," Hittite arszi "flows," and perhaps also Rha, Scythian name of the River Volga (see rhubarb)).
Example
- 1. Keep a rosemary plant in your office .
- 2. About two tablespoons of chopped rosemary
- 3. Add fresh rosemary as well - it is lamb 's best friend !
- 4. Whizz the cucumber in a blender until it becomes completely liquid , then add the drop of rosemary essential oil .
- 5. I have some lavender , rosemary , and different ferns and mosses at the moment .