Romance

See also: romance, romancé, and românce

English

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)
• Armenian: ռոմանական (hy) (ṙomanakan)
• Catalan: romànic
• Chinese:

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

• Danish: romansk
• 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)
• Scots: Romance
• Slovene: romanski (sl)
• Spanish: románico (es), romance (es)
• Swedish: romansk (sv)
• Vietnamese: Rôman

Related terms

• Romanicist
• Romantic
• Romanticism

See also

• Latin

Anagrams

• Cameron, Cremona, Marenco, Menorca