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"ROSETTA" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a rose". |
Date "ROSETTA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1906. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Rosetta (Africa). The orchards of Rosetta are filled with turtle-doves. "Now hangs listening to the doyes In warm Rosetta." T. Moore: Paradise and the Peri. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
It famous as the site where the Rosetta Stone was found by French soldiers in 1799.
Rosetta is also the name of a space probe.
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Rosetta is a space probe financed by the European Space Agency. It was originally to have been launched on January 12, 2003 to rendezvous with the comet 46 P/Wirtanen in 2011. However this plan was abandoned after the Ariane 5 failure on December 11, 2002. A new plan is under consideration to target the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko with a launch in February, 2004 and rendezvous in 2014.The probe is designed to orbit a comet and land on it. It is named after the Rosetta Stone.
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Crosswords: ROSETTA |
| English words defined with "ROSETTA": Champollion ♦ Jean Francois Champollion ♦ Ro-setta stone ♦ Thomas Young ♦ young. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "ROSETTA" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Italian (rose-cut diamond). |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Ordeal of Rosetta (1918) Rosetta (1999) Masked Angel Rosetta (1998) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Rosetta Sharp, performing in MGM studio. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "ROSETTA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ROSETTA" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 14 | 93,893 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "ROSETTA" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Rosetta | First name Female | 22,000 | 579 |
| Rosetta | Last name | 200 | 36,991 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "ROSETTA" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a rose". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "ROSETTA." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Roselle | Female | French | Rosa |
| Rosette | Female | French | Rosa |
| Rosine | Female | French | Rosa |
| Rosa | Female | Italian | N/A |
| Rosangela | Female | Italian | Rosa |
| Rosella | Female | Italian | Rosa |
| Rosetta | Female | Italian | Rosa |
| Rosina | Female | Italian | Rosa |
| Rosa | Female | Portuguese | N/A |
| Rosa | Female | Scandinavian | N/A |
| Rosa | Female | Spanish | N/A |
| Rosita | Female | Spanish | Rosa |
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| Country | Name |
| USA | Rosetta Inpharmatics, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "ROSETTA": rosetta stone ♦ Rosetta wood. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "ROSETTA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Japanese Kanji | ロシア文字 (lock, locker, locker room, lock-file, Lockheed, locking, lockout, logic, logic analyzer, logic programming, logical, logistics, loss, loss leader, loss of time, lost, lost ball, Lost Generation, lost time, rhodium, Rochester, rock, rock fiber, rock music, rock 'n' roll, rock wool, rock-climbing, rocking, rocking chair, rockoon, rose, Rosetta Stone, rosette, Rossignol, roster, Russian character). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | ロゼッタストーン (Rosetta Stone). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | osettaray | ||||
Misspellings | |
"ROSETTA" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bozetti, Brossette, Grossetti, Hosetti, Nosette, Oresteia, Osetia, Proetta, Ranetta, Rosato, roseta, rosettta, Roswitha, Rovetta, Roxette. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: rotates, toaster. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-o-r-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: oaters, orates, ottars, otters, rotate, rottes, stater, stator, tarots, taster, taters, tetras, tortes, toters, treats. | |
-2 letters: arose, aster, oater, orate, ottar, otter, rates, ratos, roast, roset, rotas, rotes, rotte, stare, start, state, stoae, stoat, store, tares, taros, tarot, tarts, taste, tater, tates, tears, teats, testa, tetra, toast, toeas, toras, tores, torse, torte. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-o-r-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: abettors, aerostat, attestor, garottes, outrates, outstare, prostate, rheostat, rostrate, taborets, testator, toasters, toastier. | |
+2 letters: adroitest, aerostats, aftermost, allotters, amarettos, amorettos, astrocyte, attestors, attorneys, betatrons, corotates, cottagers, estimator, foretaste, frottages, garotters, garrottes, northeast, obturates, operettas, outstared, outstares, outtrades, overstate, pastorate, patentors, poetaster, prostates, prostrate, retroacts, rheostats, rotatores, spectator, stateroom, stationer, tabourets, tattooers, tautomers, teratomas, testators, tetragons, tetrapods, theocrats, tolerates, tutorages. | |
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