rolo

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• IPA^(key): /ˈrolo/

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• Rhymes: -olo
• Syllabification: ro‧lo

rolo (accusative singular rolon, plural roloj, accusative plural rolojn)

1. part (position or role)

• ĉefrolo

14th century. Deverbal from rolar (“to roll”), from Old French roeler, from Medieval Latin rotulare, from rota (“wheel”). Doublet of rollo and rótulo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrolo̝/, /ˈrɔlo̝/

rolo m (plural rolos)

1. roll (that which is rolled up)
2. scroll
   • 1390, José Luís Pensado Tomé (ed.), Os Miragres de Santiago. Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 162:

     [aa] seestra parte, Isaque et Jacob, que tẽẽ senllos roollos ẽnas maãos

     to the left, Isaac and Jacob, who both hold a scroll with their hands

3. coil
4. roller
5. rolling pin
6. roll, tumble

   Synonyms: tombo, vorcallón, vorquillón

7. cradle

   Synonym: berce

8. grass course left back when mowing

• a rolos

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “rolo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “roollo”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “rolo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “rolo (cilindro)”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “rolo (berce)”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “rolo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

rolo

1. first-person singular present indicative of rolar

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔ.lɔ/
• Rhymes: -ɔlɔ
• Syllabification: ro‧lo

rolo f

1. vocative singular of rola

• rolo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• Rhymes: -olu
• Hyphenation: ro‧lo

rolo m (plural rolos)

1. roll
2. roller (tool for applying paint or ink)
3. rolling pin (food preparation utensil)
4. hair roller

   Synonym: bobe

5. bolt (roll of fabric)

• Hyphenation: ro‧lo

rolo

1. first-person singular present indicative of rolar

• “rolo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “rolo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• IPA^(key): /ˈrolo/ [ˈro.lo]
• Rhymes: -olo
• Syllabification: ro‧lo

rolo m (plural rolos)

1. blind (covering for a window)

   Synonym: persiana

rolo

1. first-person singular present indicative of rolar

Of Spanish origin (as opposed to an indigenous language).^[1] It may have originated as a term mocking a rhotacism phenomenon among Muisca speakers of Spanish,^[2] or it may have originated from Peruvian Spanish.^[1]

rolo m (plural rolos, feminine rola, feminine plural rolas)

1. (Bogotá, dated, derogatory) a person from Bogotá whose parents were born elsewhere (as distinguished from a cachaco)^[3]
2. (Colombia, colloquial, by extension) a person from Bogotá, regardless of ancestry.^[2]

The term has lost its derogatory connotation in modern times and is now used as a term of local pride,^[2] similar to how, for instance, Puerto Ricans use boricua.

• “rolo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

• loor, loro, olor, orlo, orló