rollo

See also: Rollo, rollò, and röllö

Galician

Alternative forms

  • rolho (Reintegrationist)

Etymology

From Latin rotulus, through Vulgar Latin *rotlu.[1] 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

References

  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “rueda”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

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

 

 

  • Syllabification: ro‧llo

Noun

rollo m (plural rollos)

  1. roll
  2. coil
  3. reel
  4. (colloquial) boring talk
  5. (colloquial) nonsense, tosh
  6. (colloquial, Spain) vibes, feeling
    buen rollogood vibes
    mal rollobad feeling
  7. (colloquial, Spain) affair
  8. (colloquial) fuck, shag
  9. (colloquial, Spain) fling, hookup, thing (a short casual sexual relationship)
  10. (colloquial, Spain) fuckbuddy
    Synonyms: follamigo, amigovio

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