Roma

See also: roma, Róma, romà, romã, Rōma, and Rô-ma

English

A Roma girl in Serbia.

Etymology 1

Related to Rom, from Romani rom, probably ultimately from Sanskrit डोम (doma, “member of a low caste of travelling musicians and dancers in Kashmir”).[1] The names of the Lom and Dom are related. 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.

Alternative forms

  • Rroma

Proper noun

Roma

  1. A nomadic people with origins in India, the Romani.
  2. A subgroup of the Romani people found primary in Eastern Europe.
  3. A variety of the Romani language (or occasionally) the Romani macrolanguage.
Translations
  • For: translations which are exonyms (not cognates of the Romani term for themselves), see Gypsy.

Noun

Roma (plural Romas)

  1. A Romani; a member of the Roma/Romani people.
Translations

Adjective

Roma (not comparable)

  1. Romani: of or pertaining to the Roma people.
Translations

See also

References

  1. ↑ See e.g. Matras, Romani, A linguistic Introduction (2005)

Etymology 2

From Italian and Latin Roma (“Rome”).

Proper noun

Roma

  1. A variety of tomato.
  2. Any of a number of places, including a city in Texas and a city in Queensland.
  3. A female given name of English-speakers.
  4. Alternative form of Rome

Etymology 3

Proper noun

Roma

  1. An Austronesian language of Indonesia.

Further reading

Anagrams

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin Rōma.

Proper noun

Roma f

  1. Rome

Hawaiian

Proper noun

Roma

  1. Romans (book of the Bible)

Italian

Etymology

From Latin Rōma.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈro.ma/, [ˈr̺oː.ma]
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: Ró‧ma

Proper noun

Roma f

  1. Rome
  2. The letter R in the Italian phonetic alphabet

Descendants

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain. Roman mythology derived the name from Rōmulus, name of the legendary founder and first king. The word may be of Etruscan origin, as Ruma was one of the Etruscan gentes (clan, tribe), and Rumon was the Etruscan name for the Tiber River.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Rōma f sg (genitive Rōmae, locative Rōmae); first declension

  1. Rome
    Ut Roma jugum omnibus terris imponeret.
    That Rome might overcome all countries.
    Venit a Roma.
    He came from Rome.
  2. The Roman Empire per se (as a synecdoche).
  3. (Late Latin) Rome and/or Constantinople (the latter as "Nova Roma").
  4. (Ecclesiastical Latin, poetic) The Roman Catholic Church in general.

Inflection

First declension, with locative.

Case Singular
nominative Rōma
genitive Rōmae
dative Rōmae
accusative Rōmam
ablative Rōmā
vocative Rōma
locative Rōmae

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Ancient Greek: Ῥώμη (Rhṓmē),Ῥωμαῖος (Rhōmaîos) (see there for further descendants)
  • → Arabic: روما‎ (rūmā)
  • Catalan: Roma
  • → Chinese: 羅馬 (Luómǎ) (or perhaps via Italian Roma)
  • → Germanic: *Rūmō (see there for further descendants)
  • → Hebrew: רומא‎ (róma)
  • Italian: Roma
  • → Middle Persian: 𐭧𐭫𐭥𐭬‎ (Hrōm)
  • Old French: Rome
  • → Old Irish: Róm
    • Irish: An Róimh
    • Manx: Yn Raue
    • Scottish Gaelic: An Ròimh
  • Old Portuguese: Rome
  • → Slavic: *Rimъ (see there for further descendants)
  • Spanish: Roma

References

  • 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

Latvian

Etymology

From Latin Rōma (“Rome”).

Proper noun

Roma

  1. Rome (capital of Italy)

Lithuanian

Etymology

From Latin Rōma (“Rome”).

Proper noun

Roma f

  1. Rome (capital of Italy)

Declension

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Proper noun

Roma

  1. Rome, the capital city of Italy.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Roma

  1. Rome, the capital city of Italy.

Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin Rōma (“Rome”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈro.ma/

Proper noun

Roma

  1. the city of Rome
  • romão

Descendants

Papiamentu

Proper noun

Roma

  1. Rome

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese Roma, from Latin Rōma (“Rome”).

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈʁo.mɐ/

Proper noun

Roma f

  1. Rome (the capital city of Italy)
  2. Rome; Ancient Rome (an ancient civilisation centred in Rome)
  3. the Catholic Church (Christian church centred in the Vatican)

Synonyms

Anagrams

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Rōma.

Proper noun

Roma

  1. Rome

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin Rōma.

Proper noun

Roma f

  1. Rome (a city in Italy)

Turkish

Proper noun

Roma

  1. Rome (province)

Declension

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