romance
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[edit] English
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[edit] Etymology
From Middle English romans, roumance, from Old French romanz, romant, from Vulgar Latin *romanice. Cognate to Italian romanzo (“novel, romance”) and romanzo (“Romance (language)”).
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romance (plural romances)
- An intimate relationship between two people; a love affair.
- A strong obsession or attachment for something or someone.
- Love which is pure or beautiful.
- A mysterious, exciting, or fascinating quality.
- A story or novel dealing with idealised love.
- An embellished account of something; an idealised lie.
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- For examples of the usage of this term see the citations page.
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[edit] Verb
romance (third-person singular simple present romances, present participle romancing, simple past and past participle romanced)
- Woo; court.
- (intransitive) To write or tell romantic stories, poetry, letters, etc.
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romance (comparative plus romance, superlative le plus romance)
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romance f. (plural romances)
- novel (work of prose fiction)
This Portuguese entry was created from the translations listed at novel. It may be less reliable than other entries, and may be missing parts of speech or additional senses. Please also see romance in the Portuguese Wiktionary. This notice will be removed when the entry is checked. (more information) July 2010
[edit] Spanish
[edit] Etymology
From Provençal (Occitan) romans, from Vulgar Latin *romanĭce. Cognates include Old French romanz, whence the modern French noun roman (“novel”).[1]
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romance m. and f. (plural romances)
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romance m. (plural romances)
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- (novel): novela
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romance (infinitive romanzar)
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of romanzar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of romanzar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of romanzar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of romanzar.
[edit] References
- ^ 1964, Dauzat, Albert; Jean Dubois, Henri Mitterand, “romance”, in Nouveau dictionnaire étymologique (in French), Paris: Librairie Larousse:
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