rumbo
See also: Rumbo
English
Etymology
Arbitrary extension of rum; or perhaps compare rumbullion.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ʌmbəʊ
Noun
rumbo (uncountable)
- (now rare, archaic) A type of punch made chiefly from rum; grog. [from 18th c.]
- 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
- Your worship would have seen him before now; for, when he is well, he and my good master Hatchway come hither every evening, and drink a couple of canns of rumbo apiece […] .
- 1824 June, [Walter Scott], Redgauntlet, […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:
- Will you have a can of flip, or a jorum of hot rumbo?
Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Latin rhombus (“rhombus”), based on the use of a rhombus to indicate directions on a map; it forms a doublet with rombo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈrumbo/ [ˈrũm.bo]
- Rhymes: -umbo
- Syllabification: rum‧bo
Further reading
- “rumbo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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