Romance

See also: romance, romancé, and românce

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Old French romanz ‎(“vernacular language (of France)”), from Late Latin rōmānicē, from Latin rōmānicus < rōmānus. Extended 17c. to all languages derived from Latin.

Noun

Romance ‎(uncountable)

1. The group of languages and cultures which are derived from Vulgar Latin.

Adjective

Romance

1. Of or dealing with languages or cultures derived from Roman influence and Latin: Italian, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Romanian, Catalan, Occitan, Corsican, etc.

Synonyms

• Romanic

Derived terms

• pan-Romance
• Romance language

Translations

of or dealing with languages or cultures derived from Roman influence and Latin

• Arabic: رُومَانْسِيّ ‎(rōmansiyy)
• Catalan: romànic
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 羅曼, 罗曼 ‎(Luómàn), 羅馬, 罗马 (zh) ‎(Luómǎ), 拉丁 (zh) ‎(Lādīng)

• Dutch: Romaans (nl)
• French: néolatin (fr) m, néolatine (fr) f, roman (fr)
• German: romanisch (de)
• Interlingua: romanic (ia), romance
• Italian: neolatino (it) m, neolatina (it) f, romanzo (it), romanico (it)
• Japanese: ロマンス ‎(Romansu), ロマン ‎(Roman), ローマン ‎(Rōman), ラテン ‎(Raten)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: romansk (no)

  Nynorsk: romansk

• Polish: romański (pl) m
• Portuguese: românico (pt)
• Romanian: romanic (ro)
• Russian: рома́нский (ru) ‎(románskij), лати́нский (ru) ‎(latínskij)
• Slovene: romanski (sl)
• Spanish: románico (es), romance (es)
• Swedish: romansk
• Vietnamese: Rôman

Related terms

• Romanicist
• Romantic
• Romanticism

See also

• Latin

Anagrams

• Cameron, Cremona, nom race