Romeo

• romeo, ROMEO

Borrowed from English Romeo.

• IPA^(key): [ˈromio]^[1]

Romeo

2. (international standards) NATO, ICAO, ITU & IMO radiotelephony clear code (spelling-alphabet name) for the letter R.
3. (nautical) Signal flag for the letter R.
4. (time zone) UTC−05:00

Borrowed from Italian Romeo, from Ancient Greek Ῥωμαῖος (Rhōmaîos, “Roman”).

• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈɹoʊmioʊ/

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Romeo

1. A male given name from the Romance languages.
2. (fiction) One of the main characters of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: the ardent lover of Juliet.
3. A number of places in the United States:
   1. A town in Conejos County, Colorado.
   2. An unincorporated community in Marion County, Florida.
   3. A village in Macomb County, Michigan.
   4. An unincorporated community in Greene County, Tennessee.

Romeo (plural Romeos)

1. (colloquial) A boyfriend.

   Have you met her latest Romeo yet?

2. A man who has a reputation for being a great lover or very romantic.
   • 1974, Black Belt, volume 12, number 4, page 11:

     Indian Romeos […] have yielded to the temptation to pat, feel, pinch and brush against the more irresistible and accessible portions of women who come within discreet cop-a-feel distance.

   • 1979, Roger Hodgson, “Take the Long Way Home”, in Breakfast in America, performed by Supertramp:

     So you think you're a Romeo / You're playing a part in a picture-show / Well, take the long way home

3. (espionage) A spy specialised in seducing persons of interest, in particular a man targeting women.
4. (derogatory) A womanizer.

• (boyfriend): beau, boyfriend, man friend
• (man who is a great lover): lover boy (informal)

• roadside Romeo
• Romeo and Juliet couple
• Romeo pimp

• Juliet
• ladykiller
• lothario, Lothario
• Montague

• Moore, Mooré, Roome, mooer, roome

Borrowed from Italian Romeo, from Ancient Greek Ῥωμαῖος (Rhōmaîos).

Romeo m

1. a male given name from Italian

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ῥωμαῖος (Rhōmaîos, “Roman”); compare Greek Ρωμαίος (Romaíos).

• IPA^(key): /roˈmɛ.o/
• Rhymes: -ɛo
• Hyphenation: Ro‧mè‧o

Romeo m

1. a male given name

• Omero, omero, omore

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈromeo/
• Rhymes: -omeo

Romeo

1. a male given name

Borrowed from Italian Romeo.

• IPA^(key): /rɔˈmɛ.ɔ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛɔ
• Syllabification: Ro‧me‧o
• Homophone: romeo

Romeo m pers

1. (countable, rare) a male given name from Italian [in turn from Ancient Greek], equivalent to English Romeo
2. (uncountable) Romeo (one of the main characters of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: the ardent lover of Juliet)

• “Romeo”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[1] (in Polish)