Roma

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English

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A group of Roma playing musical instruments.

Etymology 1

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From Romani roma, plural of rom (man, husband, Romani man). The latter probably comes from Sanskrit डोम्ब (ḍomba, lower-caste person working as a wandering musician), which may have been borrowed from a Dravidian language.[1] 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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Proper noun

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Roma

  1. A nomadic people with origins in India, the Romani.
  2. A subgroup of the Romani people found primarily in Eastern Europe.
  3. 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.

Noun

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Roma (plural Romas)

  1. A Rom; a member of the Romani people.
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Adjective

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Roma (not comparable)

  1. Romani: of or pertaining to the Romani people.
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References

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  1. ^ Rom, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, September 2024.

Etymology 2

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From Latin and Italian Roma (Rome). Doublet of Rome.

Proper noun

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Roma

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

Noun

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Roma (plural Romas)

  1. A variety of tomato.

Etymology 3

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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.

Proper noun

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Roma

  1. An Austronesian language of Indonesia.

Further reading

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Anagrams

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Azerbaijani

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Proper noun

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Roma

  1. Rome (the capital city of Italy)

Catalan

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Catalan Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia ca

Etymology

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Inherited from Latin Rōma.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Roma f

  1. Rome (the capital city of Italy)
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Central Nahuatl

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Proper noun

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Roma

  1. Rome (the capital city of Italy)

Franco-Provençal

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Franco-Provençal Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia frp

Proper noun

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Roma f

  1. Rome (the capital city of Italy)

Galician

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Proper noun

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Roma f

  1. Rome (the capital city of Italy)
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German

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈroːma/
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

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Roma m pl

  1. 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.

Hawaiian

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Proper noun

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Roma

  1. Romans (book of the Bible)

Indonesian

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Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia id

Etymology

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From Italian Roma, from Latin Rōma.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈroma/
  • Rhymes: -ma, -a
  • Hyphenation: Ro‧ma

Proper noun

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Roma

  1. Rome:
    1. the capital city of Italy.
    2. a former province of Lazio, Italy.

Alternative forms

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  • Rom (Standard Malay)
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Further reading

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Italian

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Italian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia it

Etymology

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Inherited from Latin Rōma.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Roma f

  1. Rome (the capital city of Italy)
  2. Rome (a former province of Lazio, Italy)
  3. the letter R in the Italian spelling alphabet
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Descendants

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  • Burmese: ရောမ (rau:ma.)
  • Japanese: ローマ (Rōma) (perhaps via Portuguese Roma)
  • Korean: 로마 (roma)

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Latin

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Latin Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia la

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  • R (numismatic abbreviation)

Etymology

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English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Uncertain.

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Proper noun

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Rōma f sg (genitive Rōmae); first declension

  1. 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.
  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.

Declension

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First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Rōma
Genitive Rōmae
Dative Rōmae
Accusative Rōmam
Ablative Rōmā
Vocative Rōma
Locative Rōmae

Derived terms

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Descendants

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Borrowings

References

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  • 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

Anagrams

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Latvian

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Latvian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia lv

Etymology

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From Latin Rōma (Rome).

Proper noun

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Roma

  1. Rome (the capital city of Italy)

Lithuanian

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Lithuanian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia lt

Etymology

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From Latin Rōma (Rome).

Proper noun

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Roma f

  1. Rome (the capital city of Italy)

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Maranao

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Proper noun

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Roma

  1. Rome

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia no

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Italian and Latin Roma.

Proper noun

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Roma

  1. Rome (the capital city of Italy)

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nn

Etymology

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From Italian and Latin Roma.

Proper noun

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Roma

  1. Rome (the capital city of Italy)

Occitan

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Proper noun

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Roma f

  1. Rome (the capital city of Italy)
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Old Galician-Portuguese

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Etymology

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From Latin Rōma (Rome).

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Roma

  1. Rome (the ancient capital of the Roman Empire; capital city of the Papal States, in modern-day Italy)
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Descendants

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Old Spanish

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Etymology

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From Latin Rōma. Compare Old Galician-Portuguese Roma.

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Roma f

  1. 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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Descendants

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Portuguese

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Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pt

Etymology

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Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese Roma, from Latin Rōma (Rome).

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  • Hyphenation: Ro‧ma

Proper noun

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Roma f

  1. Rome (the capital city of Italy)
  2. Rome, Ancient Rome (an ancient civilisation centred in Rome)
    Synonym: Roma Antiga
  3. the Catholic Church (Christian church centred in the Vatican)
    Synonyms: Santa Sé, Vaticano, Igreja Católica
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Anagrams

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Romagnol

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Alternative forms

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Proper noun

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Roma f (Faenza)

  1. Rome

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin Rōma.

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Roma

  1. Rome (the capital city of Italy)
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Sardinian

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Sardinian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia sc

Proper noun

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Roma f

  1. Rome (the capital city of Italy)

Sicilian

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Proper noun

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Roma f

  1. Rome (the capital city of Italy)

Spanish

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Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Spanish Roma, from Latin Rōma.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈroma/ [ˈro.ma]
  • Rhymes: -oma
  • Syllabification: Ro‧ma

Proper noun

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Roma f

  1. Rome (the capital city of Italy)

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Further reading

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Anagrams

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Swahili

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Swahili Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia sw

Proper noun

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Roma

  1. Rome (the capital city of Italy)

Turkish

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Etymology

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From Ottoman Turkish روما (Roma), from Italian and Latin Roma. Doublet of Rum.

Proper noun

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Roma

  1. Rome (the capital city of Italy)
  2. the Roman Empire

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