romancius

Latin

Pronunciation

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /roˈman.t͡ʃi.us/, [roˈmän̠ʲt͡ʃius]

Noun

rōmāncius m (genitive rōmānciī); second declension (Medieval Latin)

1. Alternative form of Rōmāncium (“vernacular, Romance”)
2. (transferred sense) romance, fable
   • 1346 May 17, John of Bohemia, letter; republished as Étienne Baluze, editor, Miscellaneorum […], volume 1, 1678, page 164:

     Ideo rogamus, quantum possumus universos ut, sicut docet apostolus, deponentes mendacium, loquatur unusquisque cum proximo suo veritatem, quòd non credat narrationem ignorantium et romancij in quibus contra veritatem plurima continentur, […]

     Therefore we ask everyone, as far as we are able, that, as the apostle teaches, setting falsehood aside, each man may speak the truth to his neighbour, that he does not believe the stories of the ignorant and of fable, in which many things contrary to the truth are contained, […]

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	rōmāncius	rōmānciī
Genitive	rōmānciī	rōmānciōrum
Dative	rōmānciō	rōmānciīs
Accusative	rōmāncium	rōmānciōs
Ablative	rōmānciō	rōmānciīs
Vocative	rōmāncie	rōmānciī

References

• romancius in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)