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Rosetta Stone
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English
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Pronunciation
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Rosetta Stone.wav Southern England
Proper noun
Rosetta Stone 1
A large inscribed stone found near Rosetta, Egypt, in 1799, later used as a basis for understanding many previously undecipherable examples of hieroglyphic writing.
en by extension Any source of information crucial to interpreting.
en My friend’s carefully-compiled notebook was the Rosetta Stone that opened up understanding of the physics lectures.
en w:National Geographic 1990 August 178 2 Voyage of the Century Bradford A. Smith 53 Deputy team leader Larry Soderblom and team member Carl Sagan argued that the surfaces of these satellites, in their cratering history, would be a Rosetta stone for understanding the early years of the outer solar system.
Translations
large inscribed stone
Afrikaans: af Rosettasteen
Arabic: ar حَجَر رَشِيد m
Azerbaijani: az Rəşid daşı, az Rozetta daşı
Basque: eu Rosetta harri
Bulgarian: bg Розетски камък m
Catalan: ca Pedra de Rosetta f
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 羅塞塔石碑 lo4 coi3 taap3 sek6 bei1
Mandarin: cmn 羅塞塔石碑 Luósètǎ shíbēi
Danish: da Rosettastenen
Dutch: nl Steen van Rosette m
Esperanto: eo Rozeta ŝtono
Finnish: fi Rosettan kivi
French: fr Pierre de Rosette f
Georgian: ka როზეტის ქვა
German: de Stein von Rosette m
Greek: el Στήλη της Ροζέττας f
Hebrew: he אבן רוזטה m
Hungarian: hu rosette-i kő
Indonesian: id Batu Rosetta
Italian: it Stele di Rosetta
Japanese: ja ロゼッタ・ストーン Rozetta-sutōn
Korean: ko ^로제타-석
Malay: ms Batu Rosetta
Norman: nrf Pièrre dé Rosette f Jersey
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb Rosettastenen
Nynorsk: nn Rosettasteinen
Persian: fa سنگ رشید sang-e rašid
Polish: pl Kamień z Rosetty m
Portuguese: pt Pedra de Roseta f
Romanian: ro Piatra din Rosetta f
Russian: ru розе́ттский ка́мень m
Serbo-Croatian:
Latin: sh Kamen iz Rosette m
Slovak: sk Rosettská doska f
Slovene: sl Kamen iz Rosette m
Spanish: es Piedra de Rosetta f
Swedish: sv Rosettastenen c
Thai: th ศิลาโรเซตตา sì-laa rohsêtdtaa
Turkish: tr Rosetta Taşı