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 in the 17th century to all languages derived from Latin.

Noun

Romance (uncountable)

1. The group of languages and cultures which are derived from Vulgar Latin. [from 17th c.]

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

Related terms

• Romanicist
• Romantic
• Romanticism
• Italic

Translations

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

• Albanian: roman (sq), romak (sq)
• Arabic: رُومَانْسِيّ‎ (rōmansiyy)
• Armenian: ռոմանական (hy) (ṙomanakan)
• Belarusian: рама́нскі (ramánski)
• Bulgarian: рома́нски (románski)
• Catalan: romànic (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 羅曼, 罗曼 (luómàn), 羅馬 (zh), 罗马 (zh) (Luómǎ), 拉丁 (zh) (lādīng)

• Czech: románský (cs)
• Danish: romansk
• Dutch: Romaans (nl)
• Finnish: romaaninen (fi)
• French: néolatin (fr), roman (fr)
• German: romanisch (de)
• Interlingua: romanic (ia), romance
• Italian: neolatino (it), romanzo (it), romanico (it)
• Japanese: ロマンス (romansu), ロマン (roman), ローマン (rōman), ラテン (raten)

• Korean: 로망스 (romangseu)
• 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
• Slovak: románsky
• Slovene: romanski (sl)
• Spanish: románico (es), romance (es)
• Swedish: romansk (sv)
• Ukrainian: рома́нський (románsʹkyj)
• Vietnamese: Rôman

See also

• Latin

Anagrams

• Cameron, Canmore, Cremona, Marenco, Menorca