rollo

See also: Rollo, rollò, and röllö

Galician

Execution of Saint Sebastian, tied to a rollo

Alternative forms

• rolho (Reintegrationist)

Etymology

From Latin rotulus, through Vulgar Latin *rotlu. 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

Related terms

• rolla

References

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “rollo”, 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), “rollo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “rollo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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, and the inherited ruejo. Cognate with English roll and role.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈroʝo/ [ˈro.ʝo]

• IPA^(key): /ˈroʝo/ [ˈro.ʝo] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ˈroʎo/ [ˈro.ʎo] (rustic northern Spain, northern and central Andes Mountains (except central Ecuador), Bolivia, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /ˈroʃo/ [ˈro.ʃo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /ˈroʒo/ [ˈro.ʒo] (central Ecuador, Santiago del Estero and environs, elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)
• IPA^(key): /ˈrojo/ [ˈro.jo] (northern Mexico, Yucatán, Central America (except Panama))

 

• Rhymes: -oʝo

• Rhymes: -oʝo (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
• Rhymes: -oʎo (rustic northern Spain, northern and central Andes Mountains (except central Ecuador), Bolivia, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -oʃo (Buenos Aires and environs)
• Rhymes: -oʒo (central Ecuador, Santiago del Estero and environs, elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)
• Rhymes: -ojo (northern Mexico, Yucatán, Central America (except Panama))

• 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 rollo ― good vibes

   mal rollo ― bad 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

Derived terms

• arrollar
• buen rollo
• cortar el rollo
• cortarrollos
• mal rollo
• portarrollos
• rollo de piano
• rollo de primavera
• rollo de una noche
• rollo patatero
• seguir el rollo

Further reading

• “rollo”, 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

Votic

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (Luutsa, Liivčülä) IPA^(key): /ˈrolːo/, [ˈroɫːo]
• Rhymes: -olːo
• Hyphenation: rol‧lo

Noun

rollo

1. a dish of potatoes and milk, prepared by boiling potatoes, peeling them, mashing them, mixing them in milk and then baking it

Inflection

Declension of rollo (type II/võrkko, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	rollo	rollod
genitive	rollo	rollojõ
partitive	rolloa	rolloit
illative	rollo, rollosõ	rolloisõ
inessive	rolloz	rolloiz
elative	rolloss	rolloiss
allative	rollollõ	rolloillõ
adessive	rolloll	rolloill
ablative	rollolt	rolloilt
translative	rollossi	rolloissi
'Standardized' inflection based on the Vaipooli dialects; see WT:AVOT. For dialectal differences between case endings, see Appendix:Votic dialects. *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive. ***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.

References

• Hallap, V.; Adler, E.; Grünberg, S.; Leppik, M. (2012), “rollo”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language]‎^[2], 2nd edition, Tallinn