Толковый словарь английского языка - rosary
Rosary
rosary
noun (plural -ries) Etymology: Medieval Latin rosarium, from Latin, rose garden, from neuter of rosarius of roses, from rosa rose Date: 1547 a Roman Catholic devotion consisting of meditation on usually five sacred mysteries during recitation of five decades of Hail Marys of which each begins with an Our Father and ends with a Gloria Patri, a string of beads used in counting prayers especially of the Roman Catholic ~
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n. (pl. -ies) 1 RC Ch. a a form of devotion in which five (or fifteen) decades of Hail Marys are repeated, each decade preceded by an Our Father and followed by a Glory Be. b a string of 55 (or 165) beads for keeping count in this. c a book containing this devotion. 2 a similar form of bead-string used in other religions. 3 a rose-garden or rose-bed. Etymology: ME f. L rosarium rose-garden, neut. of rosarius (as ROSE(1)) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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