romo

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Hausa

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Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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

Noun

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rōmō m (possessed form rōmon)

  1. broth, soup

Indonesian

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

  1. (Catholicism) priest
    Synonym: pastor

Alternative forms

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  • rama (KBBI standard)

Further reading

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Spanish

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Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

Adjective

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

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

Further reading

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Etymology 2

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

Noun

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romo m (plural romos)

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

References

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  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