English: from the medieval female personal name
Rosemunde, a Norman name, actually a compound of the Germanic
elements hros ‘horse’ + mund ‘protection’, but
associated from an early date in the popular mind with the Latin
phrase rosa munda ‘pure rose’, an epithet of the Virgin Mary.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name or name adopted by the
husband of a woman bearing the Yiddish personal name Royze (see
Rose 3).
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