different between rollo vs rolf

Galician

Etymology

From Latin rotulus, through Vulgar Latin *rotlu. Doublet of rótulo and rolo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ro?o?/

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 h?u 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

• “rollo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “rollo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “rollo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Italian

Verb

rollo

1. first-person singular present indicative of rollare

Spanish

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *rollus, from Latin rotulus. Doublet of rótulo. Cognate with English roll and role.

Pronunciation

Noun

rollo m (plural rollos)

1. roll
2. coil
3. reel
4. affair
5. (colloquial) boring talk
6. (colloquial) nonsense, tosh
7. (colloquial) vibes, feeling

8. (colloquial) fuck, shag
9. (colloquial, Spain) fling, hookup, thing (a short casual sexual relationship)
10. (colloquial, Spain) fuckbuddy

    Synonyms: follamigo, amigovio

Derived terms

Further reading

• “rollo” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Alternative forms

• Rolf

Etymology

From Ida Pauline Rolf

Verb

rolf (third-person singular simple present rolfs, present participle rolfing, simple past and past participle rolfed)

1. (transitive) To apply the Rolfing massage technique to.

Anagrams

• ROFL, flor, flor.