# rollo
## Galician
### Alternative forms

* rolho (Reintegrationist)

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈroʎo̝/

### Noun

rollo m (plural rollos)
* trunk
* pebble
    Synonyms: callao, croio, pelouro
* (historical) pillory (post used as a means of punishment and humiliation)
* (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 regnosince 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

* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “rollo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
* 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
* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “rueda”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

## Italian
### Verb

rollo
* first-person singular present indicative of rollare

## Spanish
### Etymology

Likely borrowed from Portuguese rolho, from Latin rotulus. Doublet of rótulo, a borrowing from Latin. Cognate with English roll and role.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈroʝo/ [ˈro.ʝo]
* IPA: (most of Spain and Latin America) /ˈroʝo/ [ˈro.ʝo]
* IPA: (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /ˈroʎo/ [ˈro.ʎo]
* IPA: (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈroʃo/ [ˈro.ʃo]
* IPA: (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈroʒo/ [ˈro.ʒo]
* Rhymes: -oʝo
* Rhymes: -oʝo
* Rhymes: -oʎo
* Rhymes: -oʃo
* Rhymes: -oʒo
* Syllabification: ro‧llo

### Noun

rollo m (plural rollos)
* roll
* coil
* reel
* affair
* (colloquial) boring talk
* (colloquial) nonsense, tosh
* (colloquial) vibes, feeling
    buen rollo ― good vibes
    mal rollo ― bad feeling
* (colloquial) fuck, shag
* (colloquial, Spain) fling, hookup, thing (a short casual sexual relationship)
* (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, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10