Etymology

rosin

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Today it means: A solid form of resin, obtained from liquid resin by vaporizing its volatile components. Full definition →

Old French raisine
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rosin · noun, verb1

  1. Old French · derived fromraisine
  2. English todayrosin

From Old French raisine, rousine, variants of résine. Doublet of resin.

Rosin · proper noun2

  1. Lower Sorbian · derived fromrozyna
  2. Slovene · derived fromrozina
  3. English todayRosin

* As a German surname, from the noun Rosine (“raisin”). Also Germanized/Americanized from Slavic forms of this word such as Slovene rozina, Lower Sorbian rozyna, themselves borrowed from the German. * As an Italian surname, variant of Rosino, pet form of Roso, itself from both Rosa and Rosso. * As a French surname, pet form or variant of Rose. * As a Serbo-Croatian surname (Rošin), from a variant of Rosko (converged from several meanings, including rod (“relative”)) or Rosic (related to Rosalia, or from rosa (“dew”)). * As a Jewish surname, variant of the Yiddish form of Rose (compare רויז (royz)). * Also as a Jewish surname, Russified from Rosen.

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