Róm

See also: Appendix:Variations of "rom"

Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹouːm/
• Rhymes: -ouːm
• Homophone: róm

Proper noun

Róm f

1. Rome (the capital city of Italy)

Declension

	singular
	indefinite
nominative	Róm
accusative	Róm
dative	Róm
genitive	Rómar

Synonyms

• (Rome): Rómarborg

Derived terms

• rómverji
• rómverskur

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rouːm/
• Rhymes: -ouːm
• Homophone: róm

Proper noun

Róm f (proper noun, genitive singular Rómar)

1. Rome (the capital city of Italy)

   Synonym: Rómaborg

Declension

Declension of Róm (sg-only feminine)

indefinite singular
nominative	Róm
accusative	Róm
dative	Róm
genitive	Rómar

Derived terms

• allir vegir liggja til Rómar
• Rómverji
• rómverskur

Anagrams

• mór

Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Rōma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈr͈oːβ̃]

Proper noun

Róm f (genitive Rómae)

1. Rome (the ancient capital of the Roman Empire; capital city of the Papal States)
   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 148^a6

     For·comnacair buith a maicc-som hí Róim.

     His son happened to be in Rome.

   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 174^a1

     .i. ind Róm fil hí Constantinopoil. Ar ro·hucad airechas inna Rómae co Constantinopoil, rucad dano aainmm.

     i.e. the Rome that is in Constantinople. Because the Roman Empire was brought to Constantinople, its name was thus brought with it.

   • c. 895–901, Vita tripartita Sancti Patricii, published in Bethu Phátraic: The tripartite life of Patrick (1939, Hodges, Figgis), edited and with translations by Kathleen Mulchrone, line 1707

     "Ní maith a ndu·gní," ol Pátraic. "Día léicthe dam-sa congbáil súnd, roba[d] tánaise Romae Letha cona Tibir tréthi, mo chathir-se cona Ess Rúaid trea, ⁊ robad do chland-su betis comarpai indi.

     "What you're doing isn't good." said Patrick. "If you let me have a settlement here, my city, with its Ess Rúaid [flowing] through it, could have been a second Rome in Latium with its Tiber [flowing] through it, and it would be your children who would be my successors therein."

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	RómL	—	—
Vocative	RómL	—	—
Accusative	RóimN	—	—
Genitive	RómaeH	—	—
Dative	RóimL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Related terms

• Rómán
• Rómánach
• Rómánda

Descendants

• Middle Irish: Róim
  • Irish: An Róimh
  • Manx: Yn Raue
  • Scottish Gaelic: An Ròimh

Slovak

Etymology

Borrowed from Romani rrom, probably ultimately from Sanskrit डोम (ḍoma, “member of a low caste of travelling musicians and dancers in Kashmir”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔːm/

Noun

Róm m pers (genitive singular Róma, nominative plural Rómovia, genitive plural rómov, declension pattern of chlap)

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

   Synonyms: cigán, Cigán

Declension

Declension of Róm

	singular	plural
nominative	Róm	Rómovia
genitive	Róma	Rómov
dative	Rómovi	Rómom
accusative	Róma	Rómov
locative	Rómovi	Rómoch
instrumental	Rómom	Rómami

Derived terms

• Rómka
• rómsky