romo

See also: Romo

Hausa

Alternative forms
  • رُومُو

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɽóː.móː/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [ɽóː.móː]

Noun

rōmō m (possessed form rōmon)

  1. broth, soup

Indonesian

Etymology

From Javanese rama (“father”), from Old Javanese rāma (“father”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *amax (“father”), from Proto-Austronesian *amax (“father”). Semantic loan from Portuguese padre (“priest”, literally “father”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈromo/, [ˈrɔmɔ]
  • Hyphenation: ro‧mo

Noun

romo (first-person possessive romoku, second-person possessive romomu, third-person possessive romonya)

  1. (Catholicism) priest
    Synonym: pastor

Alternative forms
  • rama (KBBI standard)

Further reading

Spanish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈromo/ [ˈro.mo]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -omo
  • Syllabification: ro‧mo

Etymology 1

From Latin rhombus, from Ancient Greek ῥόμβος (rhómbos).

Adjective

romo (feminine roma, masculine plural romos, feminine plural romas)

  1. blunt, dull
    Synonyms: desafilado, embotado
Derived terms
  • arromar (“to (make) blunt, dull”)

Further reading

Etymology 2

A loanblend from the English rum, absorbed into the Spanish lexicon unique to Belize.[1]

Noun

romo m (plural romos)

  1. (Belize, Dominican Republic) rum
    Synonym: ron

References
  1. Timothy W. Hagerty (1996) “Chapter 7: The Influence of English on the Spanish Language of Belize”, in Michael D. Phillips, editor, Belize: Selected Proceedings from the Second Interdisciplinary Conference, University Press of America, →ISBN, page 136
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