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roscada

roscada is the plural of rosc.

Meaning of rosc

Noun

rosc (countable and uncountable, plural roscada)

  1. An ancient form of unrhymed Old Irish verse that uses alliteration and meter.
    • Liam Breatnach observed in an important article (Breatnach 1984, with references) that 'Old Irish texts appear in three forms: prose, rhyming syllabic verse, and rosc. The simplest definition of rosc is that it is neither of the other two.'1995, Calvert Watkins, How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics, →ISBN, page 255

Questions about roscada

What is roscada the plural of?
Roscada is the plural of rosc.

Words near roscada in the dictionary

  1. rosbifs
  2. Rosborough
  3. Rosboroughs
  4. rosc
  5. ROSCA
  6. roscada
  7. ROSCAs
  8. roscherite
  9. Roscian
  10. roscid
  11. ROSCO

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