Римъ

From Proto-Slavic *Rimъ (“Rome”), from Late Latin Rōma.

Римъ • (Rimŭ) m

1. Rome (a major city in Italy)
2. (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)

• римьскъ (rimĭskŭ, “Roman”)

• Bulgarian: Рим (Rim)
• Macedonian: Рим (Rim)
• → Old East Slavic: Римъ (Rimŭ)
  • Old Ruthenian: Римъ (Rim)
    • Belarusian: Рым (Rym)
    • Carpathian Rusyn: Рим (Rym)
    • Ukrainian: Рим (Rym)
  • Russian: Рим (Rim), Римъ (Rim) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
    • → Kazakh: Рим (Rim)
    • → Kyrgyz: Рим (Rim)
    • → Tajik: Рим (Rim)
    • → Uzbek: Rim
• → Romanian: Râm (obsolete)

• “Римъ”, in GORAZD (overall work in Czech, English, and Russian), http://gorazd.org, 2016—2025

Learned borrowing from Old Church Slavonic Римъ (Rimŭ), from Proto-Slavic *Rimъ (“Rome”), from Late Latin Rōma.

• Hyphenation: Ри‧мъ

Римъ (Rimŭ) m

1. Rome (a major city in Italy)
2. (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)
   • 1377, Dmitry of Suzdal, Laurentian Codex‎, page 4:

     а по двинѣ въ варѧги· иꙁъ варѧгъ до рима· ѿ рима до племени хамова

     a po dvině vŭ varęgi· izŭ varęgŭ do rima· otŭ rima do plemeni xamova

     along Dvina to the land of the Varyags, from the land of the Varyags to Rome, from Rome to the tribe of Ham

• Old Ruthenian: Римъ (Rim)
  • Belarusian: Рым (Rym)
  • Carpathian Rusyn: Рим (Rym)
  • Ukrainian: Рим (Rym)
• Russian: Рим (Rim), Римъ (Rim) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
  • → Kazakh: Рим (Rim)
  • → Kyrgyz: Рим (Rim)
  • → Tajik: Рим (Rim)
  • → Uzbek: Rim

From Old East Slavic Римъ (Rimŭ), from Old Church Slavonic Римъ (Rimŭ), from Proto-Slavic *Rimъ (“Rome”), from Late Latin Rōma.

Римъ • (Rim) m inan

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

• Belarusian: Рым (Rym)
• Carpathian Rusyn: Рим (Rym)
• Ukrainian: Рим (Rym)

• Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (1978), “*Римъ”, in Словник староукраїнської мови XIV–XV ст. (in Ukrainian), volume 2 (Н – Ѳ), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 292

Римъ • (Rim) m inan (genitive Ри́ма, relational adjective ри́мскій)

1. Pre-1918 spelling of Рим (Rim).