romancer

English

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French romanceour. Surface etymology is romance +‎ -er.

Noun

romancer (plural romancers)

1. One who romances.
   • 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.

Etymology 2

romance +‎ -er (“Variety -er”)

Noun

romancer (plural romancers)

1. (entertainment industry) A romantic film or television show.

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French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French romancier (“to narrate in the vernacular”), from romanz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɔ.mɑ̃.se/

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.