Roma
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Related to Rom, from Romani rom, probably from Sanskrit डोम (ḍoma, “member of a low caste of travelling musicians and dancers”) or डोम्ब (ḍomba),[1] probably ultimately from the same root as Sanskrit डमरु (ḍamaru, “drum”).[2] Kuiper (1948), Turner (1962-6) and Beníšek (2006) suggest that the word डोम्ब (ḍomba) is of Munda origin. The names of the Lom and Dom are related. Related దొమ్మర (dommara) and डोंबारी (ḍombārī) (community of wandering artists). Folk etymology pointed to a legend that the ethnic group were an exiled people from Imperial times.
The other major categories of words for the Roma are cognates of Gypsy (words related to Egypt) and cognates of tzigane (words derived from Greek); see those entries for more information.
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Roma
- A nomadic people with origins in India, the Romani.
- A subgroup of the Romani people found primarily in Eastern Europe.
- A variety of the Romani language (or occasionally) the Romani macrolanguage.
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- For translations which are exonyms (not cognates of the Romani term for themselves), see Gypsy.
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Roma (plural Romas)
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Roma (not comparable)
- Romani: of or pertaining to the Roma people.
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From Latin and Italian Roma (“Rome”). Doublet of Rome.
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Roma
- Any of a number of places, including a city in Texas and a city in Queensland.
- A female given name from Latin of English-speakers.
- Alternative form of Rome
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Roma (plural Romas)
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Compare Indonesian Bahasa Romang (“Roma language”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
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Roma
- An Austronesian language of Indonesia.
Further reading edit
- Ethnologue entry for Roma, rmm
- Romang language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Bahasa Romang on the Indonesian Wikipedia.Wikipedia id
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Roma
- Rome (the capital city of Italy)
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Roma f
- Rome (the capital city of Italy)
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Roma
- Rome (the capital city of Italy)
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Roma
- Rome (the capital city of Italy)
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Roma f
- Rome (the capital city of Italy)
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Roma m pl
- plural of Rom
- 2016 April 11, Caroline Kraft, quoting Gilda-Nancy Horvat, “Beleidigt, bespuckt”, in Zeit Online[1]:
- "Viele Roma positionieren sich zu Antiziganismus gar nicht, weil sie Angst haben. Sie outen sich nicht, egal, ob sie Manager, Anwälte oder Politiker sind. Der Gedanke, stolz darauf sein zu können, dass man Roma ist, erscheint immer noch absurd", meint Gilda-Nancy Horvath, selbst Romni und ORF-Journalistin.
- “Many a Rom does not take position in respect to antiziganism, by reason of fear. They don’t come out, no matter, whether they are managers, advocates or politicians. The thought of being proud about being a Rom, still appears absurd.”, opines Gilda-Nancy Horvath, herself Romni and ORF journalist.
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Roma
- Romans (book of the Bible)
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From Italian Roma, from Latin Rōma.
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Roma
- Rome:
- the capital city of Italy.
- a former province of Lazio, Italy.
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- Rom (Standard Malay)
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- “Roma” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
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Roma f
- Rome (the capital city of Italy)
- Rome (a former province of Lazio, Italy)
- the letter R in the Italian spelling alphabet
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- R (numismatic abbreviation)
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Uncertain.
- Roman mythology derived the name from Rōmulus, name of the legendary founder and first king. This is almost certainly a folk etymology, and the name of the mythical figure is more likely derived from the city name.
- The word may derive from *Roumon- or *Roumen-, an archaic name for the Tiber river that would be derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *srew- (“to flow”) (for which compare Ancient Greek ῥεῦμα (rheûma, “river”) and Στρῡμών (Strūmṓn, “Strymon, Struma”), Albanian rrymë (“stream”), Proto-Slavic *strumy (“stream”), Lithuanian stràuma (“stream”), and perhaps also Latin rūmen). If so, the intermediate source may have been an Indo-European substrate.
- The word may be of Etruscan origin, as 𐌓𐌖𐌌𐌀 (ruma) was one of the Etruscan gentes, from 𐌓𐌖𐌌 (rum, “teat”). Given the lack of a secure Indo-European etymology for Rōma, this possibility is most appealing.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈroː.ma/, [ˈroːmä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈro.ma/, [ˈrɔːmä]
Proper noun edit
Rōma f sg (genitive Rōmae); first declension
- Rome (the ancient capital of the Roman Empire; capital city of modern-day Italy)
- Ut Roma iugum omnibus terris imponeret.
- That Rome might overcome all countries.
- Venit Roma.
- He came from Rome.
- The Roman Empire per se (as a synecdoche).
- (Late Latin) Rome and/or Constantinople (the latter as "Nova Roma").
- (Ecclesiastical Latin, poetic) The Roman Catholic Church in general.
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First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
Case | Singular |
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Nominative | Rōma |
Genitive | Rōmae |
Dative | Rōmae |
Accusative | Rōmam |
Ablative | Rōmā |
Vocative | Rōma |
Locative | Rōmae |
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- Borrowings
- → Ancient Greek: Ῥώμη (Rhṓmē) (see there for further descendants)
- → Arabic: روما (rūmā)
- → Proto-Celtic: *Rūmā (see there for further descendants)
- → Proto-Germanic: *Rūmō (see there for further descendants)
- Southern Common Slavic: → *Rymъ
- Proto-Eastern South Slavic: *Rimъ
- Proto-Western South Slavic: *Rimъ
- → Mishnaic Hebrew: רומא
- Israeli Hebrew: רומא (róma)
- → Middle Persian: [Term?] (/Hrōmāyīg/, “Roman, Greek”)
- → Old Irish: Róm (see there for further descendants)
- → Romanian: Roma
References edit
- “Roma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Roma”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
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Roma
- Rome (the capital city of Italy)
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Roma f
- Rome (the capital city of Italy)
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Roma
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- A Maranao Dictionary, by Howard P. McKaughan and Batua A. Macaraya
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Roma
- Rome (the capital city of Italy)
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Roma
- Rome (the capital city of Italy)
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Roma f
- Rome (the capital city of Italy)
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Roma
- Rome (the ancient capital of the Roman Empire; capital city of the Papal States, in modern-day Italy)
- 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, To codex, cantiga 5 (facsimile):
- Eſta ·xviiii· é como ſṫa maria aiudou · á emperadriz de roma · a ſofrer as grãdes coitaſ per que paſſou.
- This 19th is how Holy Mary helped the empress of Rome suffer the great pains she underwent.
- Eſta ·xviiii· é como ſṫa maria aiudou · á emperadriz de roma · a ſofrer as grãdes coitaſ per que paſſou.
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From Latin Rōma. Compare Old Galician-Portuguese Roma.
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Roma f
- Rome
- c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 79r:
- Sant peẏdro fo p̃dicar en roma. e por occaſiõ de ſimõ magus el encantador. nero el enꝑador fizolo meter en .+. dela cabeça aẏuſo e delos pies aſuſo.
- Saint Peter went to Rome to preach, and because of Simon Magus the sorcerer Nero the emperor had him put on a cross with his head down and his feet up.
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- Spanish: Roma
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Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese Roma, from Latin Rōma (“Rome”).
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- Hyphenation: Ro‧ma
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Roma f
- Rome (the capital city of Italy)
- Rome, Ancient Rome (an ancient civilisation centred in Rome)
- Synonym: Roma Antiga
- the Catholic Church (Christian church centred in the Vatican)
- Synonyms: Santa Sé, Vaticano, Igreja Católica
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Roma f (Faenza)
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Audio (file)
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Roma
- Rome (the capital city of Italy)
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Roma f
- Rome (the capital city of Italy)
Sicilian edit
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Roma f
- Rome (the capital city of Italy)
Spanish edit
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Inherited from Old Spanish Roma, from Latin Rōma.
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Roma f
- Rome (the capital city of Italy)
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Further reading edit
- “Roma”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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Roma
- Rome (the capital city of Italy)
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From Ottoman Turkish روما (Roma), from Italian and Latin Roma. Doublet of Rum.
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Roma
- Rome (the capital city of Italy)
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- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “روما”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 632