rollo

See also: Rollo, rollò, and röllö

Galician

Execution of Saint Sebastian, tied to a rollo

Alternative forms

• rolho (Reintegrationist)

Etymology

From Latin rotulus, through Vulgar Latin *rotlu. Doublet of rótulo and rolo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈroʎo̝/

Noun

rollo m (plural rollos)

1. trunk
2. pebble

   Synonyms: callao, croio, pelouro

3. (historical) pillory (post used as a means of punishment and humiliation)
4. (historical) scaffold (platform for public executions)
   • 1417, Rodríguez González, Ángel (ed. ) (1992): Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 59:

     por quanto enna tal çidade como esta non avia lugar perteeçente en que se exsecutase a justiça, que acordara de mandar faser enno lugar que disen Monteooris hũu rollo segundo que estava ennas outras çidades do regno

     since in a city such as this there was no place dedicated to the execution of justice he ordered to build, in the place called Monteourís, a scaffold after the ones that were in the other cities of the kingdom

   Synonyms: cadafalso, patíbulo

Related terms

• rolla

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “rollo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “rollo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “rollo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Italian

Verb

rollo

1. first-person singular present indicative of rollare

Spanish

Etymology

Likely borrowed from Portuguese rolho, from Latin rotulus. Doublet of rótulo, a borrowing from Latin. Cognate with English roll and role.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈroʝo/ [ˈro.ʝo]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /ˈroʝo/ [ˈro.ʝo]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /ˈroʎo/ [ˈro.ʎo]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈroʃo/ [ˈro.ʃo]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈroʒo/ [ˈro.ʒo]

 

• Rhymes: -oʝo

• Rhymes: -oʝo
• Rhymes: -oʎo
• Rhymes: -oʃo
• Rhymes: -oʒo

• Syllabification: ro‧llo

Noun

rollo m (plural rollos)

1. roll
2. coil
3. reel
4. affair
5. (colloquial) boring talk
6. (colloquial) nonsense, tosh
7. (colloquial) vibes, feeling

   buen rollo ― good vibes

   mal rollo ― bad feeling

8. (colloquial) fuck, shag
9. (colloquial, Spain) fling, hookup, thing (a short casual sexual relationship)
10. (colloquial, Spain) fuckbuddy

    Synonyms: follamigo, amigovio

Derived terms

• arrollar
• buen rollo
• cortar el rollo
• cortarrollos
• mal rollo
• portarrollos
• rollo de piano
• rollo de primavera
• rollo de una noche
• rollo patatero
• seguir el rollo

 

Further reading

• “rollo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10