romanticise

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin Rōma

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Proto-Italic *-nos

Latin -nus

Latin -ānus

Latin Rōmānus

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Indo-European *-ikos

Proto-Italic *-ikos

Latin -icus

Latin rōmānicus

Latin -ē

Vulgar Latin rōmānicē

Old French romanz

Old French romauntder.

English romant

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Latin -icuslbor.

Old French -iquebor.

Middle English -ik

English -ic

English romantic

English -ise

English romanticise

From romantic + -ise.

Verb

romanticise (third-person singular simple present romanticises, present participle romanticising, simple past and past participle romanticised)

1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of romanticize.
   • 2014 December 22, Alison Flood, “JK Rowling ‘unnerved’ by girls who fall for Hogwarts bully Draco Malfoy”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 25 March 2016:

     JK Rowling says that “girls are very apt to romanticise” the antihero, and reveals that she had been forced to pour “cold common sense” on the startling number of readers who fall for the arrogant, unscrupulous bully Draco Malfoy in her Harry Potter books.

Derived terms

• deromanticise

Anagrams

• Marcionites, anisometric, creationism, miscreation, reactionism