roya

See also: Roya and rōya

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈroʝa/ [ˈro.ʝa]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈroʝa/ [ˈro.ʝa]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈroʃa/ [ˈro.ʃa]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈroʒa/ [ˈro.ʒa]

• Rhymes: -oʝa
• Syllabification: ro‧ya

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Aragonese roya, feminine of royo, from Latin rubeus. Doublet of rubio.

Noun

roya f (uncountable)

1. Plant rust or blight

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

roya

1. inflection of roer:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “royo”, 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

Anagrams

• rayo