Romance

See also: romance, romancé, and românce

English

Etymology

From Old French romanz (“vernacular language (of France)”), from Late Latin rōmānicē, from Latin rōmānicus < rōmānus. Extended in the 17th century to all languages derived from Latin.

Noun

Romance (uncountable)

The group of languages and cultures which are derived from Vulgar Latin. [from 17th c.]

Adjective

Romance

Of or dealing with languages or cultures derived from Roman influence and Latin: Italian, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Romanian, Catalan, Occitan, Corsican, etc.

Synonyms

Romanic

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

of or dealing with languages or cultures derived from Roman influence and Latin

Arabic: رُومَانْسِيّ‎ (rōmansiyy)
Armenian: ռոմանական (hy) (ṙomanakan)
Belarusian: рама́нскі (ramánski)
Bulgarian: рома́нски (románski)
Catalan: romànic (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 羅曼, 罗曼 (luómàn), 羅馬 (zh), 罗马 (zh) (Luómǎ), 拉丁 (zh) (lādīng)
Czech: románský (cs)
Danish: romansk
Dutch: Romaans (nl)
Finnish: romaaninen (fi)
French: néolatin (fr), roman (fr)
German: romanisch (de)
Interlingua: romanic (ia), romance
Italian: neolatino (it), romanzo (it), romanico (it)
Japanese: ロマンス (romansu), ロマン (roman), ローマン (rōman), ラテン (raten)

Korean: 로망스 (romangseu)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: romansk (no)

Nynorsk: romansk
Polish: romański (pl) m
Portuguese: românico (pt)
Romanian: romanic (ro)
Russian: рома́нский (ru) (románskij), лати́нский (ru) (latínskij)
Scots: Romance
Slovak: románsky
Slovene: romanski (sl)
Spanish: románico (es), romance (es)
Swedish: romansk (sv)
Ukrainian: рома́нський (románsʹkyj)
Vietnamese: Rôman

See also

Latin

Anagrams

Cameron, Canmore, Cremona, Marenco, Menorca

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