different between toller vs roller

English

Etymology 1

toll +? -er, from the verb.

Noun

toller (plural tollers)

1. A person who tolls a bell; a bell ringer

Etymology 2

From Middle English toller, from Old English tollere; equivalent to toll +? -er, from the noun.

Noun

toller (plural tollers)

1. A person who collects tolls; a toll keeper

Etymology 3

Noun

toller (plural tollers)

1. (dogs) Short for Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever.

Translations

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese toller, from Latin tollere, present active infinitive of toll?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /to??e?/

Verb

toller (first-person singular present tollo, first-person singular preterite tollín, past participle tollido)

1. (dated) to remove; to take away; to deprive

   Synonym: quitar

2. (dated) to hinder; to impede
3. to cripple, to maim

   Synonym: eivar

4. to spoil

   Synonym: estragar

Conjugation

Derived terms

• tolleito
• tollemerendas
• tolleción
• tollido

References

• “toller” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “toll” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “toller” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “toller” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “toller” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

toller

1. inflection of toll:
   1. strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
   2. strong genitive/dative feminine singular
   3. strong genitive plural

Middle English

Alternative forms

• tollere, tollare, tollir, tolre, toler

Etymology

From Old English tollere; equivalent to toll (“toll”) +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?l?r(?)/, /?t?l?r(?)/

Noun

toller (plural tolleres)

1. A tollkeeper; one who collects tolls, levies or payments.

Descendants

• English: toller

References

• “toller(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-03.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

toller m

1. indefinite plural of toll

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin tollere, present active infinitive of toll?. Doublet of tullir.

Verb

toller (first-person singular present tollo, first-person singular preterite tollí, past participle tollido)

1. (obsolete) to remove

   Synonym: quitar

Conjugation

English

Etymology

From Middle English rollere, equivalent to roll +? -er.

(credits in TV or film): These were originally printed on a physical cylinder that was rotated in front of the camera.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /????l?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??o?l?/
• Rhymes: -??l?(?)

Noun

roller (plural rollers)

1. (heading) Anything that rolls.
   1. Any rotating cylindrical device that is part of a machine, especially one used to apply or reduce pressure.
   2. A person who rolls something, such as cigars or molten metal.
   3. (cricket) A large rolling device used to flatten the surface of the pitch.
   4. A cylindrical tool for applying paint or ink.
   5. An agricultural machine used for flattening land and breaking up lumps of earth.
   6. One of a set of small cylindrical tubes used to curl hair.
   7. A roller towel.
   8. A small wheel, as of a caster, a roller skate, etc.
   9. (cycling) One of a set of rolling cylinders allowing a rider to practise balance while training indoors.
   10. Any insect whose larva rolls up leaves, especially those in family Tortricidae.
   11. A dung beetle that rolls dung into balls.
   12. The cylinder snakes, small ground snakes of the genus Cylindrophis.
   13. (disc golf) A throw which involves the player throwing the disc in a way that makes it roll, by that being able to travel further than if thrown in the air. Only used on holes with open areas with short or no grass.

2. A long wide bandage used in surgery.
3. A large, wide, curling wave that falls back on itself as it breaks on a coast.

   • He and Gerald usually challenged the rollers in a sponson canoe when Gerald was there for the weekend?; or, when Lansing came down, the two took long swims seaward or cruised about in Gerald's dory, clad in their swimming-suits?; and Selwyn's youth became renewed in a manner almost ridiculous, […].

4. (heading) A bird.
   1. A breed or variety of roller pigeon that rolls (i.e. tumbles or somersaults) backwards (compare Penson roller, Birmingham roller, tumbler).
   2. Any of various aggressive birds, of the family Coraciidae, having bright blue wings and hooked beaks.
5. A police patrol car or patrolman (rather than an unmarked police car or a detective)
6. A padded surcingle that is used on horses for training and vaulting.
7. (television, film) A roll of titles or (especially) credits played over film or video; television or film credits.
   • 2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho, Picador 2007, p. 69:

     I learned a lot from watching, but the part that I should have studied harder was the roller. The names of the writers went on for ever.

8. (slang) A wheelchair user.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

roller (third-person singular simple present rollers, present participle rollering, simple past and past participle rollered)

1. (intransitive) To roller skate.
   • 2020, Nick Hughes, Bahama Boyz (page 138)

     One day Frankie rollered up our drive and asked me if I fancied a skate.

Anagrams

• Orrell, reroll

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English roller.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o.lœ?/

Noun

roller m (plural rollers)

1. (countable) in-line skate, rollerblade

   Il a eu sa première paire de rollers à l'âge de 8 ans.

2. (uncountable) skating (with inline skates).

   J'adore faire du roller au moment du coucher du soleil.

See also

• patin à roulettes

Further reading

• “roller” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Roller.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?rol??r]
• Rhymes: -?r
• Hyphenation: rol?ler

Noun

roller (plural rollerek)

1. kick scooter, push scooter, scooter (a small platform with two wheels that is propelled by a rider pushing off the ground)

Declension

or

Derived terms

• rolleres
• rollerezik

References

Further reading

• roller in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

roller m or f

1. indefinite plural of rolle

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

roller f

1. indefinite plural of rolle

Old French

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

roller

1. to polish a helmet

Etymology 2

see roeler

Verb

roller

1. Alternative form of roeler (to roll)

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-oll, *-olls, *-ollt are modified to ol, ous, out. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (roler, to polish a helmet)
• rouler on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub (to polish a helmet; to roll)

Portuguese

Noun

roller m (plural rollers)

1. roller skate (a boot with small wheels)

   Synonym: patim

Swedish

Noun

roller c

1. a cylindrical, rolling tool for applying paint
2. indefinite plural of roll

Declension