loro

See also: Loro, löro, and lổ rò

Aragonese

Etymology

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Noun

loro m (plural loros)

1. parrot

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “loro”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

Galician

A Galician yoke

A Galician flail

Etymology

Inherited from Latin lōrum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /loɾo̝/

Noun

loro m (plural loros)

1. strap, made of leather or of twisted twigs, used for joining the yoke and the plough or the cart

   Synonyms: corre, estrobo

2. leather strap or iron chain which connect both parts of a flail

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “loro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “loro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “loro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “loro”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Italian

Alternative forms

• lor (apocopic)

Etymology

Inherited from Latin illōrum, genitive plural of ille, illud (“that”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlo.ro/

  • Audio:

    (file)

  • Hyphenation: ló‧ro
• IPA^(key): (enclitic) /lo.ro/
  • Hyphenation: lo‧ro
• Rhymes: -oro

Pronoun

loro m pl or f pl by sense

1. (subject or disjunctive) they, them
2. (enclitic, dative, formal) them, to them

   Synonym: gli

   Parlerò loro. ― I'll talk to them.

Usage notes

• loro (“to them”) is mostly restricted to formal communication. In regular usage gli is used instead, which avoids the following irregularities of loro:
  • loro almost always follows the verb

    Parlerò loro. ― I'll talk to them.

  • loro generally follows the past participle

    Ho detto loro. ― I told them.

  • loro always follows other clitics
  • loro is never attached to the verb or other clitics

See also

Italian personal pronouns

		singular						plural
		first	second	second formal / polite5	third			first	second	second formal / polite5	third
				m or f	m	f				m or f	m	f
nominative		io	tu	Lei, Ella8	lui, egli8, ello8, elli3, 8, esso8	lei, ella8, essa8		noi	voi, Voi7	Loro	loro
elli3, 8, ellino4, 8, eglino4, 8, essi8	elle3, 8, elleno4, 8, esse8
atonic (clitic)11	accusative / dative-reflexive	mi, m', -mi, me9	ti, t', -ti, te9	―	si6, s', -si, se9, ci13			ci, c', -ci, ce9	vi, Vi7, v', V'7, -vi, -Vi7, ve9	―	si, s', -si, se9
	accusative			La, -La, L'	lo, l', -lo, il4	la, l', -la				Le, -Le	li, -li	le, -le
	dative			Le, -Le	glie9					Loro10	loro10, gli2, -gli2, glie9
					gli, -gli	le, -le, gli2, -gli2
	locative	―			ci, c', vi1, v'1			―			ci, c', vi1, v'1
	partitive	ne, n'		ne, n'
tonic12	prepositional-reflexive	―			sé			―			sé
	oblique	me	te	Lei	lui, esso8	lei, essa8		noi	voi, Voi7	Loro	loro,
											essi8	elle8, esse8

¹ Formal.
² Informal.
³ Archaic.
⁴ Obsolete.
⁵ Grammatically third person forms used semantically in the second person as a formal or polite way of addressing someone (with the first letter frequently capitalised as a sign of respect, and to distinguish them from third person subjects). Unlike the singular forms, the plural forms are mostly antiquated terms of formal address in the modern language, and second person plural pronouns are almost always used instead.
⁶ Also used as indefinite pronoun meaning “one”, and to form the passive.
⁷ Formal (capitalisation optional); in many regions, can refer to just one person (compare with French vous).
⁸ Traditional grammars still indicate the forms egli (animate), ello / ella (animate), esso / essa and their plurals as the nominative forms of the third person pronouns; outside of very formal or archaizing contexts, all such forms have been replaced by the obliques lui, lei, loro.
⁹ Forms used when followed by a third-person direct object proclitic (lo, la, li, le, or ne).
¹⁰ Used after verbs.
¹¹ Unstressed forms, stand alone forms are found proclitically (except dative loro / Loro), others enclitically (-mi, -ti, etc.).
¹² Disjunctive, emphatic oblique forms used as direct objects placed after verbs, in exclamations, along prepositions (prepositional) and some adverbs (come, quanto, etc.); also used with a to create alternative emphatic dative forms.
¹³ Only in "ci si", replaces indefinite si (“one”) before reflexive si (“oneself”).

Determiner

loro (invariable) (possessive)

1. their

   i loro figli ― their children

   le loro macchine ― their cars

   casa loro ― their house

   loro padre ― their father

2. (often capitalized) your (polite plural form)

   i Loro figli ― your children

   le Loro macchine ― your cars

   casa Loro ― your house

   il Loro padre ― your father

Pronoun

loro (invariable)

1. theirs

   Sono i loro. ― They are theirs.

2. (often capitalized) your (polite plural form)

   Sono i Loro. ― They are yours.

Usage notes

• The use or non-use of the definite article in conjunction with the determiner and possessive pronoun is the same as for mio; see the usage note there.

See also

• mio
• nostro
• suo
• tuo
• vostro

Anagrams

• orlo, orlò

Javanese

Romanization

loro

1. romanization of ꦭꦺꦴꦫꦺꦴ
2. (Arekan) nonstandard spelling of lara, romanization of ꦭꦫ

Latin

Noun

lōrō

1. dative/ablative singular of lōrum

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Taíno roro.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈloɾo/ [ˈlo.ɾo]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -oɾo
• Syllabification: lo‧ro

Noun

loro m (plural loros, feminine lora, feminine plural loras)

1. parrot, parakeet

   Synonym: papagayo

   • c. 1981, “Yo No”, performed by Parálisis Permanente:

     Los loros atienden / Repiten y aprenden / Los cuervos observan / Y nunca se acercan

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (by extension) chatterbox

   Synonyms: charlatán, cotorra

3. (colloquial, derogatory) ugly person

   Synonyms: adefesio, esperpento, callo

Derived terms

• al loro
• estar al loro
• loro coroniblanco
• loro hablador
• loro senil
• loro tamaulipeco
• loro tricahue
• pez loro
• pico de loro

Further reading

• “loro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Anagrams

• loor, olor, orlo, orló, rolo, roló

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish loro, from Taíno roro.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈloɾo/ [ˈloː.ɾo]
• Rhymes: -oɾo
• Syllabification: lo‧ro

Noun

loro (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜓᜇᜓ)

1. parrot
2. parrotfish

   Synonyms: isdang-loro, lutiin

See also

• abukay
• bubutok
• kakatuwa
• kalangay
• katala
• kulasisi
• papagayo
• periko
• pikoy

Further reading

• “loro”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018

Tetum

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qaləjaw. Cognate with Tagalog araw, Malagasy andro, Manggarai leso, Hawaiian ao.

Noun

loro

1. (astronomy) sun

Derived terms

• loromonu
• lorosa'e