roña

Meaning

1. (feminine) dirt; grime
2. (feminine) rust
3. (feminine) meanness
4. (feminine) mange (disease)
5. (feminine) grudge (against someone)
6. (feminine) trick

Hyphenated as

ro‧ña

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈroɲa/

Etymology

From Latin aerūginem (“rust”), from aes, aeris (“bronze”) + -ūgō (forms nouns denoting superficial coatings). Or maybe linked to a Vulgar Latin *ronea or *aronea, from Latin arānea (“spiderweb”) (perhaps with influence from another word, such as rōbīgō (“rust”), rubea (“reddish”), or rōdō (“gnaw”)), and thus would be a doublet of araña. Compare Portuguese ronha, Galician raña, Catalan ronya, French rogne, Italian rogna, Sicilian rugna; cf. also Romanian râie.