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 + -icus. 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.]

Meronyms

Balkan Romance
- Romanian = Wallachian
  - Daco-Romanian
  - Istro-Romanian
  - Macedo-Romanian = Aromanian = Arumanian
  - Megleno-Romanian
  - Moldovan
Catalan (sometimes included in Ibero-Romance, sometimes in Occitano-Romance and sometimes as a bridge language between Ibero- and Gallo-Romance)
- Old Catalan
- Algherese
- Balearic
  - Mallorcan (Majorcan), Mallorquin
  - Minorcan (Menorcan)
- Valencian
Gallo-Romance
- Franco-Provençal = Arpitan (Arpetan)
- Bourguignon
- Champenois
- French
  - Old French – Middle French – New French
- Gallo
- Norman
- Picard
- Poitevin
- Walloon
Ibero-Romance, Iberian Romance
- Astur-Leonese
  - Asturian
  - Leonese
- Cantabrian
- Extremaduran
- Fala
- Galician
- Mirandese
- Mozarabic
- Navarro-Aragonese
  - Aragonese
- Portuguese
- Spanish = Castilian
  - Old Spanish
  - Andalusian
  - Judaeo-Spanish (Judeo-Spanish) = Ladino
  - Mexican
Italo-Romance
- Calabrian
- Gallo-Italian, Gallo-Italic
- Italian
  - Old Italian
  - Judeo-Italian = Italkian
- Neapolitan
  - Tarantino
- Sicilian
- Venetian
Occitan = Provençal (broad sense) (sometimes included in Gallo-Romance and sometimes in Occitano-Romance)
- Gascon, Gascon Occitan
  - Aranese
- Languedocian
- Niçois
- Provençal (strict sense)
- Judeo-Provençal = Shuadit
Occitano-Romance (not generally used; includes Catalan and Occitan)
Rhaeto-Romance (Raeto-Romance) = Rhaetian = Alpine Romance
- Friulian
- Ladin
- Romansch
Sardinian, Sard
- Campidanese, Campidanese Sardinian
- Logudorese
- Nuorese
Gallurese
Sassarese
Dalmatian
Istro-Romance = Istriot
Pannonian

Derived terms

Proto-Romance

Translations

group of languages and cultures which are derived from Vulgar Latin

German: Romanisch (de) n

Adjective

Romance

Of or dealing with languages or cultures derived from Roman influence and Latin: French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Galician, Romanian, Catalan, Occitan, etc.
- Eulàlia Bonet and Joan Mascaró, On the representation of contrasting rhotics, in: 1997, Fernando Martínez-Gil, Alfonso Morales-Front (eds.), Issues in the Phonology and Morphology of the Major Iberian Languages, p. 103ff., here p. 103:
  In this paper we will concentrate on the problem posed by Iberian Romance languages (i.e. Catalan, Portuguese, and Spanish), [...]

Synonyms

Romanic
Romantic

Derived terms

pan-Romance
Romance language

Related terms

Romanicist
Romantic
Romanticism

Translations

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

Albanian: roman (sq), romak (sq)
Arabic: رُومَانْسِيّ‎ (rōmansiyy)
Hijazi Arabic: لاتيني‎ (lātīni), روماني‎ (rōmāni)
Armenian: ռոմանական (hy) (ṙomanakan)
Belarusian: рама́нскі (ramánski)
Bulgarian: рома́нски (románski)
Catalan: romànic (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 羅曼／罗曼 (luómàn), 羅馬／罗马 (zh) (Luómǎ), 拉丁 (zh) (lādīng)
Czech: románský (cs)
Danish: romansk
Dutch: Romaans (nl)
Finnish: romaaninen (fi)
French: roman (fr)
Galician: románico m
German: romanisch (de)
Greek: ρωμανικός (el) (romanikós)
Hungarian: újlatin (hu)
Icelandic: rómanskur
Interlingua: romanic (ia), romance
Italian: romanzo (it), romanico (it); neolatino (it)
Japanese: ロマンス (romansu), ロマン (ja) (roman), ローマン (rōman), ラテン (raten)
Korean: 로망스 (romangseu)
Latin: rōmānicus
Norwegian:
Bokmål: romansk (no)
Nynorsk: romansk
Occitan: romanic (oc)
Polish: romański (pl)
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

Anagrams

Cameron, Canmore, Cremona, Marenco, Menorca