The peasant girl is not the rose, It is rather Aristotle's comedy on laughter, which is destroyed by the fire in the library. In the book, one of the last sentences is "Stat Rosa pristina nomine,...
The scientific (or more correctly botanical) name for the Rose plant genus is Rosa.There are a number of species of "Rosa" and literally hundreds (if not thousands) of named Rose cultivars.The common...
The name rose comes from French, itself from Latin, rosa, which was borrowed from Oscan, from Greek ρόδιόν rhodion (Aeolic υρόδιόν wrodion), from Old Persian wurdi "flower" (cf.Avest....