-orro

Romani

Alternative forms

• -oro
• -ořo (Pan-Vlax)

Etymology

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit [script needed] (-ḍ-), from Sanskrit -र्- (-r-).

Suffix

-orro m (feminine -orri)

1. (International Standard) suffix indicating diminution

Derived terms

Romani terms suffixed with -orro

Further reading

• Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “-ořó”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 202
• Marcel Courthiade (2009) “-orro”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 501
• Marcel Courthiade (2009) “-ǒrri”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 501
• Yūsuke Sumi (2018) “-orro (m.), -orri / -ǒrri (f.)”, in ニューエクスプレス　ロマ（ジプシー）語 [New Express Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, →ISBN, page 130

Spanish

Etymology

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Suffix

-orro m (noun-forming suffix, plural -orros)
-orro (adjective-forming suffix, feminine -orra, masculine plural -orros, feminine plural -orras)

1. forms pejorative diminutives of adjectives and nouns

Derived terms

Spanish terms suffixed with -orro

Further reading

• “-orro”, 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