oro

Adjective

oro

1. all

Etymology 1

From Spanish oro.

Etymology 2

See etymology on the main entry.

Further reading

• “oros” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish oro, from Latin aurum, from Proto-Italic *auzom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂é-h₂us-o- (“glow”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: o‧ro

Noun

oro

1. (archaic) gold
   1. a heavy yellow elemental metal of great value, with atomic number 79 and symbol Au
   2. a coin or coinage made of this material, or supposedly so

Etymology

From Spanish oro (“gold”).

Noun

oro

1. gold

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈoro/
• Hyphenation: o‧ro

Noun

oro (uncountable, accusative oron)

1. gold

Etymology

Alternative of ori. Cognate to Livvi oro.

Noun

oro

1. (rare, poetic) stallion

Verb

oro

1. first-person singular present indicative of orar

Noun

oro (plural ori)

1. gold

Etymology 1

From Latin aurum, from earlier ausum, from Proto-Italic *auzom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éh₂usom (“glow”), derived from the root *h₂ews-.

Etymology 2

See etymology on the main entry.

Romanization

oro

1. Rōmaji transcription of おろ

Etymology

From ōs, ōris (“mouth”)^[1].
From Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- (“to pronounce a ritual”); see also Hittite 𒅈𒌋𒉿𒄿 (“to worship, revere”), 𒅈𒄿𒄿𒀀𒄿 (“to consult an oracle”), Attic Greek ἀρά (ará, “prayer”), and Sanskrit आर्यन्ति (āryanti, “praise”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈoː.roː/

Verb

ōrō (present infinitive ōrāre, perfect active ōrāvī, supine ōrātum); first conjugation

1. I orate, deliver a speech
2. I plead, beg
3. I pray, entreat

References

• oro in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• oro in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• oro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to entreat earnestly; to make urgent requests: orare et obsecrare aliquem
    
  • to crave humbly; to supplicate: supplicibus verbis orare
    
  • to address the court (of the advocate): causam dicere, orare (Brut. 12. 47)
    
  • (ambiguous) to draw every one's eyes upon one: omnium oculos (et ora) ad se convertere
    
  • (ambiguous) to be in every one's mouth: per omnium ora ferri
    
  • (ambiguous) to be a subject for gossip: in ora vulgi abire
    
  • (ambiguous) the storm drives some one on an unknown coast: procella (tempestas) aliquem ex alto ad ignotas terras (oras) defert
    

Noun

oro m

1. genitive of oras

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈoro/

Verb

oro

1. inflection of orrut:
   1. present indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular imperative
   3. imperative connegative

Verb

oro

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of orar

Noun

oro n (Cyrillic spelling оро)

1. hora

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈoɾo/

Etymology 1

From Old Spanish oro, from Latin aurum (compare Catalan or, Dalmatian jaur, French or, Galician ouro, Italian oro, Occitan aur, Portuguese ouro, Romanian aur), from Proto-Italic *auzom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂é-h₂us-o- (“glow”).

Etymology 2

See etymology on the main entry.

Further reading

• “oro” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Etymology

o- +‎ ro, the negation of ro (“rest, peace”), from Old Swedish. Definition 3 is likely a direct loan from German Unruh (“balance wheel”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

oro c

1. (archaic, uncountable) unrest
2. (uncountable) worry, fear, anxiety, nervousness
3. a balance wheel, regulating the speed of a clockwork

References

• oro in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)