orlo

From Spanish orlo.

orlo (plural orlos)

1. (archaic) A Spanish wind instrument, possibly a crumhorn.

• Loor, OOLR, rool

• IPA^(key): /ˈor.lo/
• Rhymes: -orlo
• Hyphenation: ór‧lo

From Vulgar Latin *orulus, diminutive of ōra.

orlo m (plural orli, diminutive orlétto or orlìno, augmentative orlóne, pejorative orlàccio)

1. border, edge, margin, brink, verge; the milled edge of a coin

   Synonyms: margine, bordo, estremità, confine

   La società è sull'orlo del fallimento. ― The company is on the verge of bankruptcy.

   riempiere la brocca fino all'orlo ― to fill the jug to the brim

2. hem, hemline, welt, cuff (of clothes)
3. (heraldry) orle

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

orlo

1. first-person singular present indicative of orlare

• orlo in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• orlo in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
• orlo in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• orlo in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• órlo in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• órlo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• Loro, loro

orlo

1. first-person singular present indicative of orlar

• IPA^(key): /ˈoɾlo/ [ˈoɾ.lo]
• Rhymes: -oɾlo
• Syllabification: or‧lo

Possibly from German Horn, although the sound changes are not well-explained.

orlo m (plural orlos)

1. (historical, music) an orlo [from mid-16th c.]

orlo

1. first-person singular present indicative of orlar

• “orlo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• “orlo”, in Diccionario histórico de la lengua española [Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], launched 2013, →ISSN

• loor, loro, olor, rolo, roló