roman

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See also: róman, román, român, Roman, and Rómán

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: rōmən, IPA(key): /ˈɹəʊmən/
  • Hyphenation: ro‧man

Adjective

roman (not comparable)

  1. (of type, typography) upright, as opposed to italic
    Antonyms: italic, italicised, italicized, oblique, slanted, sloped
  2. (of text, computing) of or related to the Latin alphabet

Noun

roman (uncountable)

  1. (typography) One of the main three types used for the Latin alphabet (the others being italics and blackletter), in which the ascenders are mostly straight.

Derived terms

See also

Roman type on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams


Azerbaijani

Etymology

Likely from Russian рома́н (román), ultimately from French roman.

Noun

roman

  1. novel

Declension


Catalan

Pronunciation

Verb

roman

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Crimean Tatar

Noun

roman (accusative [please provide], plural [please provide])

  1. novel, epic
  2. Romanian
    Synonyms: rоmen, rumın

Declension


Danish

Noun

roman c (singular definite romanen, plural indefinite romaner)

  1. novel (work of fiction)

Declension

References


Dutch

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nl

Etymology

Borrowed from French roman.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /roːˈmɑn/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: ro‧man

Noun

roman m (plural romans, diminutive romannetje n)

  1. novel (work of fiction)

Derived terms


French

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

In the 19th century, borrowed from Latin romanus.[1] or from the French noun below [2], originally from Old French romanz (common language).

Adjective

roman (feminine romane, masculine plural romans, feminine plural romanes)

  1. (linguistics) Romance
  2. (art) romanesque

See also

Etymology 2

From Old French romanz (common language (as opposed to Latin)), from Vulgar Latin romanicē (in the way of the Romans (as opposed to the Franks)), from Latin rōmānicus < rōmānus.[3]. The meaning “common language” changed into “book in common language” and then into “adventure novel”.[1] See also romance, of the same ultimate origin but borrowed through Spanish.

Noun

roman m (plural romans)

  1. novel (work of fiction)
  2. (colloquial) a very long text
    Il nous écrit un roman encore.(please add an English translation of this usage example) See pavé.
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Russian: рома́н (román) (see there for further descendants)

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Picoche, Jacqueline with Jean-Claude Rolland (2009) “Annexe IV, roman”, in Dictionnaire étymologique du français (in French), Paris: Dictionnaires Le Robert
  2. ^ http://www.cnrtl.fr/etymologie/roman
  3. ^ Dauzat, Albert with Jean Dubois, Henri Mitterand (1964) “roman”, in Nouveau dictionnaire étymologique (in French), Paris: Librairie Larousse

Further reading


Indonesian

Etymology 1

From Dutch roman, from French roman, from Old French romanz (common language (as opposed to Latin)), from Vulgar Latin romanicē (in the way of the Romans (as opposed to the Franks)), from Latin rōmānicus < rōmānus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈro.man/
  • Hyphenation: ro‧man

Noun

roman (first-person possessive romanku, second-person possessive romanmu, third-person possessive romannya)

  1. novel.
    Synonym: novel

Etymology 2

Form Dutch romance, from German Romanze, from French romance, from Spanish romance, itself probably a borrowing from either Old French romanz or Old Occitan romans, meaning a narrative work in the vernacular speech, from Vulgar Latin *romanĭce (in a Roman manner), ultimately from Latin rōmānicus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈro.man/
  • Hyphenation: ro‧man

Noun

roman (first-person possessive romanku, second-person possessive romanmu, third-person possessive romannya)

  1. (colloquial) love story.

Further reading


Interlingue

Adjective

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  1. Roman

Noun

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  1. novel

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia no

Etymology

From French roman.

Pronunciation

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Noun

roman m (definite singular romanen, indefinite plural romaner, definite plural romanene)

  1. a novel (work of fiction)

Derived terms

References


Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nn

Etymology

From French roman.

Noun

roman m (definite singular romanen, indefinite plural romanar, definite plural romanane)

  1. a novel (work of fiction)

Derived terms

References


Romanian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French roman (novel, epic), from Old French romanz.

Noun

roman n (plural romane)

  1. novel, epic (work of fiction)
Declension

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French roman (a medieval romance).

Noun

roman n (plural romane)

  1. Medieval romance
Declension

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Latin rōmānus. Doublet of român (Romanian) and rumân, which was inherited.

Adjective

roman m or n (feminine singular romană, masculine plural romani, feminine and neuter plural romane)

  1. Roman
Declension

Noun

roman m (plural romani, feminine equivalent romană)

  1. Roman
Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From French roman.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rǒmaːn/
  • Hyphenation: ro‧man

Noun

ròmān m (Cyrillic spelling ро̀ма̄н)

  1. novel (work of fiction)

Declension

References

  • roman” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Slovene

Pronunciation

Noun

romȃn m inan

  1. novel (work of fiction)

Inflection

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nom. sing. román
gen. sing. romána
singular dual plural
nominative
(imenovȃlnik)
román romána románi
genitive
(rodȋlnik)
romána románov románov
dative
(dajȃlnik)
románu románoma románom
accusative
(tožȋlnik)
román romána románe
locative
(mẹ̑stnik)
románu románih románih
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik)
románom románoma románi

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

roman c

  1. novel (work of fiction)

Declension

Declension of roman 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative roman romanen romaner romanerna
Genitive romans romanens romaners romanernas

See also


Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French roman.

Pronunciation

Noun

roman (definite accusative romanı, plural romanlar)

  1. novel (work of fiction)

Declension

Inflection
Nominative roman
Definite accusative romanı
Singular Plural
Nominative roman romanlar
Definite accusative romanı romanları
Dative romana romanlara
Locative romanda romanlarda
Ablative romandan romanlardan
Genitive romanın romanların
Possessive forms
Nominative
Singular Plural
1st singular romanım romanlarım
2nd singular romanın romanların
3rd singular romanı romanları
1st plural romanımız romanlarımız
2nd plural romanınız romanlarınız
3rd plural romanları romanları
Definite accusative
Singular Plural
1st singular romanımı romanlarımı
2nd singular romanını romanlarını
3rd singular romanını romanlarını
1st plural romanımızı romanlarımızı
2nd plural romanınızı romanlarınızı
3rd plural romanlarını romanlarını
Dative
Singular Plural
1st singular romanıma romanlarıma
2nd singular romanına romanlarına
3rd singular romanına romanlarına
1st plural romanımıza romanlarımıza
2nd plural romanınıza romanlarınıza
3rd plural romanlarına romanlarına
Locative
Singular Plural
1st singular romanımda romanlarımda
2nd singular romanında romanlarında
3rd singular romanında romanlarında
1st plural romanımızda romanlarımızda
2nd plural romanınızda romanlarınızda
3rd plural romanlarında romanlarında
Ablative
Singular Plural
1st singular romanımdan romanlarımdan
2nd singular romanından romanlarından
3rd singular romanından romanlarından
1st plural romanımızdan romanlarımızdan
2nd plural romanınızdan romanlarınızdan
3rd plural romanlarından romanlarından
Genitive
Singular Plural
1st singular romanımın romanlarımın
2nd singular romanının romanlarının
3rd singular romanının romanlarının
1st plural romanımızın romanlarımızın
2nd plural romanınızın romanlarınızın
3rd plural romanlarının romanlarının
Predicative forms
Singular Plural
1st singular romanım romanlarım
2nd singular romansın romanlarsın
3rd singular roman
romandır
romanlar
romanlardır
1st plural romanız romanlarız
2nd plural romansınız romanlarsınız
3rd plural romanlar romanlardır