loro

See also: Loro, löro, and lổ rò

Aragonese

Etymology

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Noun

loro m (plural loros)

  1. parrot

References

Galician

Etymology

From Latin lōrum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /loɾo̝/

Noun

loro m (plural loros)

  1. strap, made of leather or of twisted twigs, used for joining the yoke and the plough or the cart
    Synonyms: corre, estrobo
  2. leather strap or iron chain which connect both parts of a flail

References

Italian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Latin illōrum, genitive plural of ille, illud (“that”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlo.ro/
    • Audio:(file)
    • Hyphenation: ló‧ro
  • IPA(key): (enclitic) /lo.ro/
    • Hyphenation: lo‧ro
  • Rhymes: -oro

Pronoun

loro m pl or f pl by sense

  1. (subject or disjunctive) they, them
  2. (enclitic, dative, formal) them, to them
    Synonym: gli
    Parlerò loro. ― I'll talk to them.

Usage notes

  • loro (“to them”) is mostly restricted to formal communication. In regular usage gli is used instead, which avoids the following irregularities of loro:
    • loro almost always follows the verb
      Parlerò loro. ― I'll talk to them.
    • loro generally follows the past participle
      Ho detto loro. ― I told them.
    • loro always follows other clitics
    • loro is never attached to the verb or other clitics

See also

Italian personal pronouns
singular plural
first second second formal / polite5 third first second second formal / polite5 third
m or f m f m or f m f
nominative io tu Lei, Ella8 lui, egli8, ello8, elli3, 8, esso8 lei, ella8, essa8 noi voi, Voi7 Loro loro
elli3, 8, ellino4, 8, eglino4, 8, essi8 elle3, 8, elleno4, 8, esse8
atonic (clitic)11 accusative / dative-reflexive mi, m', -mi, me9 ti, t', -ti, te9 ― si6, s', -si, se9 ci, c', -ci, ce9 vi, Vi7, v', V'7, -vi, -Vi7, ve9 ― si, s', -si, se9
accusative La, -La, L' lo, l', -lo, il4 la, l', -la Le, -Le li, -li le, -le
dative Le, -Le glie9 Loro10 loro10, gli2, -gli2, glie9
gli, -gli le, -le, gli2, -gli2
locative ― ci, c',
vi1, v'1 		― ci, c',
vi1, v'1
partitive ne, n' ne, n'
tonic12 prepositional-reflexive ― sé ― sé
oblique me te Lei lui, esso8 lei, essa8 noi voi, Voi7 Loro loro,
essi8 elle8, esse8
1 Formal.
2 Informal.
3 Archaic.
4 Obsolete.
5 Grammatically third person forms used semantically in the second person as a formal or polite way of addressing someone (with the first letter frequently capitalised as a sign of respect, and to distinguish them from third person subjects). Unlike the singular forms, the plural forms are mostly antiquated terms of formal address in the modern language, and second person plural pronouns are almost always used instead.
6 Also used as indefinite pronoun meaning “one”, and to form the passive.
7 Formal (capitalisation optional); in many regions, can refer to just one person (compare with French vous).
8 Traditional grammars still indicate the forms egli (animate), ello / ella (animate), esso / essa and their plurals as the nominative forms of the third person pronouns; outside of very formal or archaizing contexts, all such forms have been replaced by the obliques lui, lei, loro.
9 Forms used when followed by a third-person direct object proclitic (lo, la, li, le, or ne).
10 Used after verbs.
11 Unstressed forms, stand alone forms are found proclitically (except dative loro / Loro), others enclitically (-mi, -ti, etc.).
12 Disjunctive, emphatic oblique forms used as direct objects placed after verbs, in exclamations, along prepositions (prepositional) and some adverbs (come, quanto, etc.); also used with a to create alternative emphatic dative forms.

Determiner

loro (invariable) (possessive)

  1. their
    i loro figli ― their children
    le loro macchine ― their cars
    casa loro ― their house
    loro padre ― their father
  2. (often capitalized) your (polite plural form)
    i Loro figli ― your children
    le Loro macchine ― your cars
    casa Loro ― your house
    il Loro padre ― your father

Pronoun

loro (invariable)

  1. theirs
    Sono i loro. ― They are theirs.
  2. (often capitalized) your (polite plural form)
    Sono i Loro. ― They are yours.

Usage notes

  • The use or non-use of the definite article in conjunction with the determiner and possessive pronoun is the same as for mio; see the usage note there.

See also

Anagrams

Javanese

Romanization

loro

  1. romanization of ꦭꦺꦴꦫꦺꦴ
  2. (Arekan) nonstandard spelling of lara, romanization of ꦭꦫ

Latin

Noun

lōrō

  1. dative/ablative singular of lōrum

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Taíno roro.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈloɾo/ [ˈlo.ɾo]
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -oɾo
  • Syllabification: lo‧ro

Noun

loro m (plural loros, feminine lora, feminine plural loras)

  1. parrot, parakeet
    Synonym: papagayo
    • c. 1981, “Yo No”, performed by Parálisis Permanente:
      Los loros atienden / Repiten y aprenden / Los cuervos observan / Y nunca se acercan
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. (by extension) chatterbox
    Synonyms: charlatán, cotorra
  3. (colloquial, derogatory) ugly person
    Synonyms: adefesio, esperpento, callo

Derived terms

Further reading

Anagrams

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish loro, from Taíno roro.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈloɾo/ [ˈloː.ɾo]
  • Rhymes: -oɾo
  • Syllabification: lo‧ro

Noun

loro (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜓᜇᜓ)

  1. parrot
  2. parrotfish
    Synonyms: isdang-loro, lutiin

See also

Further reading

  • “loro”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018

Tetum

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qaləjaw. Cognate with Tagalog araw, Malagasy andro, Manggarai leso, Hawaiian ao.

Noun

loro

  1. (astronomy) sun

Derived terms

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