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English
Etymology
From Middle English Rome , from Old English Rōm , Rūm , from Proto-West Germanic *Rūmu , from Proto-Germanic *Rūmō and influenced by Late Latin Rōma ( “ Rome, Constantinople ” ) , from Classical Latin Rōma ( “ Rome ” ) . In Roman mythology, the name was said to derive from Romulus , one of the founders of the city and its first king.
The name appears in a wide range of forms in Middle English, including Rom , Room , Roome , and Rombe as well as Rome ; by early modern English, it appeared as Rome , Room , and Roome , with the spelling Rome occurring in Shakespeare and common from the early 18th century on. The final spelling was influenced by Norman , Middle French , Anglo-Norman , and Old French Rome .[ 1] Doublet of Roma and Rum .
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Rome
A city on the Tiber River on the Italian peninsula; ancient capital of the Roman Empire ; capital city of Italy ; capital city of the region of Lazio .
1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare , “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio ), London: Isaac Iaggard , and Ed Blount , published 1623 , →OCLC , , line 157 :When could they say (till now) that talk'd of Rome , That her wide Walles incompast but one man? Now is it Rome indeed, and Roome enough When there is in it but one onely man.
1866 December 8, 'Filius Ecclesiæ', Notes & Queries , "Rome:Room", 456 1:
Within the last thirty weeks I have heard the word Rome pronounced Room by several old-fashioned people in the north of Ireland, some of my own relations among the number. On remonstrating with one of these, she said, "It was always Room when I was at school (say about 1830), and I am too old to change it now."
A metropolitan city of Lazio , Italy .
( metonymically ) The Italian government .
2016 , Per Tiedtke, chapter 2, in Germany, Italy and the International Economy 1929–1936: Co-operation or Rivalries at Times of Crisis? , Europe: Tectum Verlag, →ISBN , page 99 :At first, Berlin tried to amend the agreement to restore a German trade surplus, but Rome refused.
Ancient Rome; the former Roman Empire ; Roman civilization .
c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio ), London: Isaac Iaggard , and Ed Blount , published 1623 , →OCLC , , line 82 :
1711 May , [Alexander Pope ], An Essay on Criticism , London: W Lewis ; and sold by W Taylor , T Osborn , and J Graves , →OCLC , page 39 :Learning and Rome alike in Empire grew, And Arts still follow'd where her Eagles flew; From the same Foes [viz. , Tyranny and Superstition], at last, both felt their Doom, And the same Age saw Learning fall, and Rome .
1821 , Lord Byron , Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice. An Historical Tragedy, in Five Acts. , London: John Murray , , →OCLC , Act V, scene i, page 149 :A wife's dishonour unking'd Rome for ever.
The Holy See , the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church , particularly prior to the establishment of the Vatican City in the 19th century .
1537 January 26, T. Starkey, letter:
The wych you perauenture wyl impute to thys defectyon from Rome .
1591 (date written), William Shakespeare , “The First Part of Henry the Sixt ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio ), London: Isaac Iaggard , and Ed Blount , published 1623 , →OCLC , :
The Church of Rome , the Roman Catholic Church generally .
c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio ), London: Isaac Iaggard , and Ed Blount , published 1623 , →OCLC , , line 7:
A number of places in the United States :
An unincorporated community in Covington County , Alabama .
A city, the county seat of Floyd County , Georgia .
A census-designated place in Peoria County , Illinois .
An unincorporated community in Perry County , Indiana .
A village in Henry County , Iowa .
A ghost town in Ellis County , Kansas .
An unincorporated community in Sumner County , Kansas .
An unincorporated community in Daviess County , Kentucky .
A town in Kennebec County , Maine .
An unincorporated community in Sunflower County , Mississippi .
An unincorporated community in Douglas County , Missouri .
A city in Oneida County , New York .
A village in Green Township, Adams County , Ohio .
Synonym: Stout ( the name of the post office )
An unincorporated community in Delaware County , Ohio .
A ghost town in Morrow County , Ohio .
An unincorporated community in Richland County , Ohio .
An unincorporated community in Malheur County , Oregon .
A borough in Bradford County , Pennsylvania .
An unincorporated community in Smith County , Tennessee .
A town and unincorporated community in Adams County , Wisconsin .
A census-designated place in Jefferson County , Wisconsin .
A number of townships , including in Illinois , Iowa , Michigan , Minnesota , Ohio (3) and Pennsylvania (2), listed under Rome Township .
A surname .
Synonyms
Derived terms
Descendants
→ Hindi: रोम ( rom )
→ Thai: โรม ( room )
Translations
city, capital of Italy
Afrikaans: Rome (af)
Aghwan: 𐕆𐕙𐕒𐕌 ( hrom )
Albanian: Romë
Amharic: ሮማ ( roma )
Arabic: رُومَا f ( rūmā ) , رُومِيَة f ( rūmiya )
Egyptian Arabic: روما f ( ruma )
Hijazi Arabic: روما f ( rōma )
Armenian: Հռոմ (hy) ( Hṙom )
Asturian: Roma f
Azerbaijani: Roma (az)
Bashkir: Рим ( Rim )
Basque: Erroma (eu)
Belarusian: Рым m ( Rym )
Bengali: রোম (bn) ( rōm )
Breton: Roma (br)
Bulgarian: Рим m ( Rim )
Burmese: ရောမ (my) ( rau:ma. )
Carpathian Rusyn: Рим m ( Rym )
Catalan: Roma (ca) f
Chechen: Рим ( Rim )
Cherokee: ᎶᎻ ( lomi ) , ᎶᎹ ( loma )
Chinese:
Cantonese: 羅馬 / 罗马 ( lo4 maa5 )
Eastern Min: 羅馬 / 罗马 ( Lò̤-mā )
Hakka: 羅馬 / 罗马 ( Lò-mâ )
Hokkien: 羅馬 / 罗马 ( Lô-má )
Mandarin: 羅馬 / 罗马 (zh) ( Luómǎ )
Wu: 羅馬 / 罗马 ( 6 lu-ma)
Coptic:
Bohairic: ⲣⲱⲙⲏ ( rōmē )
Sahidic: ϩⲣⲱⲙⲏ ( hrōmē )
Czech: Řím (cs) m
Danish: Rom (da)
Dutch: Rome (nl) n
Egyptian: (hrm m )
Esperanto: Romo (eo)
Estonian: Rooma (et)
Farefare: Dooma , Doom
Faroese: Róm (fo) f , Rómaborg f
Finnish: Rooma (fi)
French: Rome (fr) f
Friulian: Rome
Galician: Roma (gl) f
Georgian: რომი (ka) ( romi )
German: Rom (de) n
Gothic: 𐍂𐌿𐌼𐌰 f ( ruma )
Greek: Ρώμη (el) f ( Rómi )
Ancient: Ῥώμη f ( Rhṓmē )
Gujarati: રોમ ( rom )
Hawaiian: Loma
Hebrew: רוֹמָא (he) f ( róma )
Hindi: रोम (hi) ( rom ) , रोमक (hi) m ( romak )
Hungarian: Róma (hu)
Icelandic: Róm f , Rómaborg f
Ido: Roma (io)
Indonesian: Roma
Irish: an Róimh f
Italian: Roma (it) f
Japanese: ローマ (ja) ( Rōma ) , 羅馬 (ja) ( Rōma ) ( dated )
Kalmyk: Рим ( Rim )
Kannada: ರೋಮ್ ( rōm )
Kazakh: Рим ( Rim )
Khmer: រ៉ូម (km) ( roum )
Korean: 로마 (ko) ( Roma ) , 나마(羅馬) (ko) ( Nama ) ( dated ) , 라마(羅馬) (ko) ( Rama ) ( dated, North Korea )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: Roma (ku)
Kyrgyz: Рим ( Rim )
Lao: ໂລມ ( lōm ) , ໂຣມ ( rōm )
Latin: Rōma (la) f
Latvian: Roma (lv) f
Lithuanian: Roma (lt) f
Macedonian: Рим m ( Rim )
Malay: Rum , Rom
Malayalam: റോം ( ṟōṁ )
Maltese: Ruma
Manx: Yn Raue f
Maori: Rōma (mi)
Maranao: Roma
Marathi: रोम n ( rom )
Middle English: Rome , Roome
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: Ром ( Rom )
Nepali: रोम ( rom )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Roma (no) , Rom (no)
Nynorsk: Roma
Occitan: Roma (oc)
Odia: ରୋମ (or) ( roma )
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: Римъ ( Rimŭ )
Glagolitic: Ⱃⰹⰿⱏ m ( Rimŭ )
Old East Slavic: Римъ m ( Rimŭ )
Old English: Rōm f , Rōmeburh f
Old Norse: Róm n , Rúm n , Róma f , Rómaborg f
Old Occitan: Roma
Old Portuguese: Roma
Ossetian: Ром ( Rom )
Ottoman Turkish: روم ( Rum ) , قزل المه ( Qızıl Elma )
Pashto: روم (ps) m ( rom ) , روما f ( romã )
Persian: رم (fa) ( Rom )
Middle Persian: 𐭧𐭫𐭥𐭬 ( ḥlʿm /Hrōm/ )
Polish: Rzym (pl) m
Portuguese: Roma (pt) f
Punjabi: ਰੋਮ ( rom )
Romanian: Roma (ro) f
Russian: Рим (ru) m ( Rim )
Sanskrit: रोम (sa) ( roma ) , रोमक (sa) m ( romaka ) , रोमकः (sa) m ( romakaḥ ) , रोमकपुर (sa) n ( romakapura ) , रोमकपत्तन (sa) n ( romakapattana )
Sardinian: Roma f
Saterland Frisian: Room
Scots: Roum
Scottish Gaelic: Ròimh f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Ри̑м m
Roman: Rȋm (sh) m
Sicilian: Roma f
Silesian: Rzim m
Sinhalese: රෝමය ( rōmaya )
Slovak: Rím (sk) m
Slovene: Rím (sl) m
Somali: Roma
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: Rom m
Upper Sorbian: Rom m
Spanish: Roma (es) f
Swahili: Roma
Swedish: Rom (sv)
Tagalog: Roma
Tajik: Рим ( Rim ) , Рум ( Rum )
Tamil: உரோம் ( urōm )
Tatar: Рим ( Rim )
Telugu: రోమ్ ( rōm )
Thai: โรม (th) ( room )
Tibetan: རོ་མ ( ro ma )
Turkish: Roma (tr)
Turkmen: Rim
Ukrainian: Рим (uk) m ( Rym )
Urdu: روم (ur) ( rom )
Uyghur: رىم ( rim )
Uzbek: Rim
Vietnamese: Rôma (vi) , La Mã (vi) ( dated )
Volapük: Roma , ( seven hills ) Vellubelazif
Welsh: Rhufain (cy)
West Frisian: Rome
Yiddish: רוים n ( roym )
Yoruba: Róòmù
Zhuang: Lozmaj
Zulu: eRoma
metropolitan city in Lazio, Italy
metonym for the Italian government
Translations to be checked
See also
References
Anagrams
-more , More , Moré , mero , Mero , omer , Omer , erom , Orme , moer , mero- , more , Orem
Afrikaans
Etymology
Inherited from Dutch Rome , from Middle Dutch rome .
Proper noun
Rome
Rome (a city, the ancient capital of the Roman Empire ; capital city of Italy ; capital city of the region of Lazio ).
Rome (a metropolitan city of Lazio , Italy )
ancient Rome; the former Roman Empire
Synonyms: Romeinse Ryk , Romeinse Keiserryk
Dutch
Etymology
(capital of Italy ) From Middle Dutch rome .
(Maasdriel ) First attested as Rome in 1830-1855. Named after the Italian city, allegedly because many Roman artefacts were found there.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Rome n
Rome (the capital city of Italy )
Rome (a metropolitan city of Lazio , Italy )
A hamlet in Maasdriel , Gelderland , Netherlands
Descendants
References
van Berkel, Gerard, Samplonius, Kees (2018 ) Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN
Anagrams
Finnish
Etymology
From English Rome .
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Rome
Rome ( any of a number of localities in USA or elsewhere )
Declension
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French Rome , from Latin Rōma .
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Rome f
Rome (the capital city of Italy )
Rome (a metropolitan city of Lazio , Italy )
Derived terms
Descendants
→ Guianese Creole: Ròm
→ Haitian Creole: Wòm
→ Persian: رم ( rom )
→ Lao: ໂຣມ ( rōm )
Anagrams
Friulian
Proper noun
Rome f
Rome
Italian
Proper noun
Rome f
plural of Roma
le due Rome , the two Romes
Anagrams
Japanese
Romanization
Rome
Rōmaji transcription of ロメ
Lithuanian
Pronunciation
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Noun
Romè
locative singular of Ròmas / Rõmas ( “ Roman ” )
Middle English
Etymology
From Old English Rōm , from Proto-West Germanic *Rūmu , from Proto-Germanic *Rūmō , from Latin Rōma .
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Rome
Rome (a city, the capital of the Papacy; ancient capital of the Roman Empire )
c. 1382 (date written), Geffray Chaucer [i.e. , Geoffrey Chaucer ], “Boetius de consolatione Philosophie . The Fyrst Boke.”, in [William Thynne ], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, , Richard Grafton for]
Iohn Reynes , published
1542 ,
→OCLC ,
folio ccxxxv, recto , column 1:
But now I am removed from the cyte of Rome almoſt .V.C.M. paas, I am wythoute defence dampned to pꝛoscrepcion and to deathe [ …] But now I've been sent almost 500,000 paces from the city of Rome ; I am without defence, sentenced to exile and death.
c. 1386–1388 (date written) , Geffray Chaucer [i.e. , Geoffrey Chaucer ], “The Legende of Good Women : The Legende of Lucresse of Rome ”, in [William Thynne ], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, , Richard Grafton for]
Iohn Reynes , published
1542 ,
→OCLC ,
folio ccxxv, verso , column 2:
Ne never was ther king in Rome towne / Syns thilke day, ⁊ ſhe was holden there [ …] There was never a king in Rome after that day, and she was seen there
The Roman Empire .
Descendants
References
Old English
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Rōme
accusative / genitive / dative singular of Rōm
Old French
Etymology
From Latin Rōma .
Proper noun
Rome
Rome (a city, the capital of the Papacy; ancient capital of the Roman Empire )
Descendants
Walloon
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Rome
Rome (the capital city of Italy )