romancer

English

Etymology 1

From Old French romanceour. By surface analysis, romance +‎ -er.

Noun

romancer (plural romancers)

1. One who romances another; one who attempt to win another's affections via romance.
   • 1977, “The Stranger”, in Billy Joel (music), The Stranger:

     Once I used to believe I was such a great romancer / then I came home to a woman that I did not recognize.

2. (dated) A person who writes romance or adventure stories, especially stories relating to chivalry, knights, heroes, quests, etc.
   • 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 26:

     [W]hat was once taught by sages, and believed by monarchs, has shared the fate of everything human and has sunk from its pristine rank to become the material and the machinery of poets and romancers.

   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     No nightmare dreamed by man, no wild invention of the romancer, can ever equal the living horror of that place, and the weird crying of those voices of the night, as we clung like shipwrecked mariners to a raft, and tossed on the black, unfathomed wilderness of air.

Etymology 2

romance +‎ -er (“Variety -er”)

Noun

romancer (plural romancers)

1. (entertainment industry) A romantic film or television show.
   • 1989 March 6, The Sydney Morning Herald, page 8S, column 1:

     Barbara Cartland scratched out this trusty 19th-century romancer concerning the scrumptious Serena Staverly (Diana Rigg), who has the dreadful misfortune to be lost in a game of cards to the flint-hearted Lord Justin.

Anagrams

• Cranmore

Catalan

Etymology

From romanç +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ru.mənˈse]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ro.mənˈse]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ro.manˈseɾ]

Adjective

romancer (feminine romancera, masculine plural romancers, feminine plural romanceres)

1. (relational) romance (literary work, either verse or prose)
2. (colloquial, derogatory) smooth-talking

Noun

romancer m (plural romancers)

1. the body of poetic romances from the early modern period of Iberian literature

Noun

romancer m (plural romancers, feminine romancera)

1. (colloquial, derogatory) smooth-talker
2. jongleur

   Synonym: joglar

Further reading

• “romancer” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Etymology

From Old French romancier (“to narrate in the vernacular”), from romanz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɔ.mɑ̃.se/

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Verb

romancer

1. (transitive) to romanticize, fictionalize

Conjugation

This verb is part of a group of -er verbs for which 'c' is softened to a 'ç' before the vowels 'a' and 'o'.

Conjugation of romancer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	romancer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	romançant /ʁɔ.mɑ̃.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		romancé /ʁɔ.mɑ̃.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	romance /ʁɔ.mɑ̃s/	romances /ʁɔ.mɑ̃s/	romance /ʁɔ.mɑ̃s/	romançons /ʁɔ.mɑ̃.sɔ̃/	romancez /ʁɔ.mɑ̃.se/	romancent /ʁɔ.mɑ̃s/
	imperfect	romançais /ʁɔ.mɑ̃.sɛ/	romançais /ʁɔ.mɑ̃.sɛ/	romançait /ʁɔ.mɑ̃.sɛ/	romancions /ʁɔ.mɑ̃.sjɔ̃/	romanciez /ʁɔ.mɑ̃.sje/	romançaient /ʁɔ.mɑ̃.sɛ/
	past historic2	romançai /ʁɔ.mɑ̃.se/	romanças /ʁɔ.mɑ̃.sa/	romança /ʁɔ.mɑ̃.sa/	romançâmes /ʁɔ.mɑ̃.sam/	romançâtes /ʁɔ.mɑ̃.sat/	romancèrent /ʁɔ.mɑ̃.sɛʁ/
	future	romancerai /ʁɔ.mɑ̃.sʁe/	romanceras /ʁɔ.mɑ̃.sʁa/	romancera /ʁɔ.mɑ̃.sʁa/	romancerons /ʁɔ.mɑ̃.sʁɔ̃/	romancerez /ʁɔ.mɑ̃.sʁe/	romanceront /ʁɔ.mɑ̃.sʁɔ̃/
	conditional	romancerais /ʁɔ.mɑ̃.sʁɛ/	romancerais /ʁɔ.mɑ̃.sʁɛ/	romancerait /ʁɔ.mɑ̃.sʁɛ/	romancerions /ʁɔ.mɑ̃.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	romanceriez /ʁɔ.mɑ̃.sə.ʁje/	romanceraient /ʁɔ.mɑ̃.sʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	romance /ʁɔ.mɑ̃s/	romances /ʁɔ.mɑ̃s/	romance /ʁɔ.mɑ̃s/	romancions /ʁɔ.mɑ̃.sjɔ̃/	romanciez /ʁɔ.mɑ̃.sje/	romancent /ʁɔ.mɑ̃s/
	imperfect2	romançasse /ʁɔ.mɑ̃.sas/	romançasses /ʁɔ.mɑ̃.sas/	romançât /ʁɔ.mɑ̃.sa/	romançassions /ʁɔ.mɑ̃.sa.sjɔ̃/	romançassiez /ʁɔ.mɑ̃.sa.sje/	romançassent /ʁɔ.mɑ̃.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	romance /ʁɔ.mɑ̃s/	—	romançons /ʁɔ.mɑ̃.sɔ̃/	romancez /ʁɔ.mɑ̃.se/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “romancer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.