roneo

Other forms of roneo

plural

roneos·

past tense

roneoed·

present participle

roneoing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about roneo

What does roneo mean?

roneo means "a rotary duplicator that uses a stencil through which ink is pressed (trade mark Roneo)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in roneo?

roneo has 3 syllables: ro-ne-o. The stress falls on "ro".

What is another word for roneo?

Close synonyms include mimeograph, mimeo, mimeograph machine, Roneograph. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is roneo a common word?

roneo is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.