Meanings
rosaria1
- pluralplural of rosarium
Rosaria2
- alternativeAlternative form of Rosalia (“ancient festival”).
- A female given name from Latin.
The court ruled that Rosaria Candura, who is in Arlington’s Symmes Hospital with a gangrene‐infected right leg, “has not been shown to be legally incompetent, and her leg may not be amputated unless she herself consents to the operation.”
1978 May 24, “Court Upholds Right of Woman to Refuse Life‐Saving Amputation”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC2 more examples
Announcement has been made by Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Williams of this city of the marriage of their daughter, Miss Rosaria Williams, to Charles W. Churchill, son of Mrs. Benton Reamer of Jersey City, which took place on Aug. 20 in Lakeport, Calif.
1939 August 25, “Rosaria Williams Has Bridal”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC“Your marriage is an example to others of how life is supposed to work,” Rosaria E. Salerno, Boston’s city clerk, told Joe Rogers and Tom Weikle, choking with emotion as she married the longtime couple in City Hall's first same-sex ceremony Monday morning.
2004 May 18, Pam Belluck, “Same-Sex Marriage: The Overview […]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Apr 2009
Origin
- LatinRosāria
- EnglishRosaria
Learned borrowing from Latin Rosāria.
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rosaria. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rosaria
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