Róm

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

Róm f

1. Rome (a major city, the capital of Italy and the Italian region of Lazio, located on the Tiber River; the ancient capital of the Roman Empire)
2. Rome (a metropolitan city of Lazio, Italy)
3. (historical) Rome, Ancient Rome (an ancient empire based out of the city of Rome, covering vast territories in Europe, Asia and Africa; in full, Roman Empire)

• (Rome): Rómarborg

• rómverji
• rómverskur

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

Róm f (proper noun, genitive singular Rómar)

1. Rome (a major city, the capital of Italy and the Italian region of Lazio, located on the Tiber River; the ancient capital of the Roman Empire)

   Synonym: Rómaborg

   Rome (a metropolitan city of Lazio, Italy)

   1. (historical) Rome, Ancient Rome (an ancient empire based out of the city of Rome, covering vast territories in Europe, Asia and Africa; in full, Roman Empire)

• allir vegir liggja til Rómar
• Rómverji
• rómverskur

• mór

Borrowed from Latin Rōma.

• IPA^(key): [ˈr͈oːβ̃]

Róm f (genitive Rómae)

1. Rome (the ancient capital of the Roman Empire; the capital city of the Papal States, in modern Italy)
   • 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."

• Rómán
• Rómánach
• Rómánda

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔːm/

Róm m pers

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

   Synonyms: cigán, Cigán