köken: From Dorn (“thorn”) + Rose (“rose”) + -chen (diminutive suffix), cognate to Dutch Doornroosje. Compare English Little Briar Rose, an alternate name for Sleeping Beauty (the tale and the character).
köken: Adjective ωραίος (oraíos, “beautiful”) and the feminine κοιμωμένη (koimōménē) of the ancient participle κοιμώμενος (koimṓmenos) of contracted passive verb κοιμῶμαι (koimômai)—in Modern Greek κοιμάμαι (koimámai, “I sleep”)—of active κοιμάω (koimáō).
From the phrasing used by Charles Perrault in Ma Mère l'Oye (published in 1697). Literally, “Beauty sleeping in the wood”, with the archaic positioning of the present participle after its complement which was frequent in Old French (as in chemin faisant and tambour battant); the modern French equivalent would be Belle dormant au bois. It is also dormant and not dormante because present…