Rome
pronunciation
How to pronounce Rome in British English:
UK [rəʊm]
How to pronounce Rome in American English:
US [roʊm]
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- Noun:
- capital and largest city of Italy; on the Tiber; seat of the Roman Catholic Church; formerly the capital of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire
- the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church
Word Origin
- Rome
- capital of Italy; seat of an ancient republic and empire; city of the Papacy, Old English, from Old French Rome, from Latin Roma, a word of uncertain origin. "The original Roma quadrata was the fortified enclosure on the Palatine hill," according to Tucker, who finds "no probability" in derivation from *sreu- "flow," and suggests the name is "most probably" from *urobsma (urbs, robur) and otherwise, "but less likely" from *urosma "hill" (compare Sanskrit varsman- "height, point," Lithuanian virsus "upper"). Another suggestion [Klein] is that it is from Etruscan (compare Rumon, former name of Tiber River). Common in proverbs, such as Rome was not buylt in one daye (1540s); for when a man doth to Rome come, he must do as there is done (1590s); All roads alike conduct to Rome (1806).
Example
- 1. The barber asked him about his trip to rome .
- 2. He will even fly over rome .
- 3. Rome pushed the carthaginians from sicily .
- 4. Rome witnessed many great historic events .
- 5. You 're crazy to go to rome .