Roma

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.

• Rroma

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.

• For: translations which are exonyms (not cognates of the Romani term for themselves), see Gypsy.

Roma (plural Romas)

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

Roma (not comparable)

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

• Rom
• Wikipedia article on the Roma subgroup

From Italian and Latin Roma (“Rome”).

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

Compare Indonesian Bahasa Romang (“Roma language”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Roma

1. An Austronesian language of Indonesia.

• Ethnologue entry for Roma, rmm
• Romang language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Bahasa Romang on the Indonesian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^id

• Amor, Mora, Omar, moar, mora, roam

Roma

1. Rome

From Latin Rōma.

Roma f

1. Rome

• romà
• romanç
• romànic
• romanitzar

• IPA^(key): /ˈroːma/

• (file)

Roma

1. plural of Rom

Roma

1. Romans (book of the Bible)

From Latin Rōma.

• IPA^(key): /ˈro.ma/, [ˈr̺oː.ma]

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: Ró‧ma

Roma f

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

• romanesco
• Romania
• romanismo
• romanista
• romanità
• romanizzare
• romano

• → Japanese: ローマ (Rōma) (perhaps via Portuguese Roma)

• amor
• armo, armò
• mora
• orma
• ramo, ramò

There are some theories:

• Roman mythology derived the name from Rōmulus, name of the legendary founder and first king.

• The word may derive from "Rumon" or "Rumen", an archaic name for the Tiber river related to the indo-european root sreu (to flow).

• The word may be of Etruscan origin, as 𐌓𐌖𐌌𐌀 (Ruma) was one of the Etruscan gentes (clans, tribes).

• From Greek word ρομ (rom, literally “strength”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈroː.ma/
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈro.ma/, [ˈroː.ma]

Rōma f sg (genitive 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.

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• rōmānicus
• rōmānus

• Rōmulus

• → Ancient Greek: Ῥώμη (Rhṓmē),Ῥωμαῖος (Rhōmaîos) (see there for further descendants)
• → Arabic: روما‎ (rūmā)
  • Hijazi Arabic: روما‎ (rōma)
• Catalan: Roma
• → Chinese: 羅馬 (Luómǎ) (or perhaps via Italian Roma)
• → Germanic: *Rūmō (see there for further descendants)
• → Hebrew: רומא‎ (róma)
• Italian: Roma
  • → Japanese: ローマ (Rōma) (perhaps via Portuguese Roma)
  • → Korean: 로마 (Roma)
  • → Lithuanian: Roma
• → Middle Persian: 𐭧𐭫𐭥𐭬‎ (Hrōm)
  • Persian: روم‎ (Rum), اروم‎ (Orum) (rare, obsolete)
• Old French: Rome
  • French: Rome
• → Old Irish: Róm
  • Irish: An Róimh
  • Manx: Yn Raue
  • Scottish Gaelic: An Ròimh
• Old Portuguese: Rome
  • Galician: Rome
  • Portuguese: Rome
  • → Romanian: Roma
• → Slavic: *Rimъ (see there for further descendants)
• Spanish: Roma

• 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

From Latin Rōma (“Rome”).

Roma

1. Rome (capital of Italy)

From Latin Rōma (“Rome”).

Roma f

1. Rome (capital of Italy)

• Rom

From Italian and Latin Roma.

Roma

1. Rome, the capital city of Italy.

From Italian and Latin Roma.

Roma

1. Rome, the capital city of Italy.

From Latin Rōma (“Rome”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈro.ma/

Roma

1. the city of Rome
   • 13th century, attributed to 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.

• romão

• Galician: Roma
• Portuguese: Roma

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

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁo.mɐ/

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)

• (Ancient Rome): Roma Antiga
• (the Catholic Church): Santa Sé, Vaticano, Igreja Católica

• romano
• Romão
• romã

• amor

Borrowed from Latin Rōma.

Roma

1. Rome

• roman

From Latin Rōma.

Roma f

1. Rome (a city in Italy)

• romance
• romano
• romántico

From Italian and Latin Roma.

Roma

1. Rome (province)