romanzo
See also: romanzó and romanzò
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /roˈman.d͡zo/, /roˈman.t͡so/[1]
- Rhymes: -andzo, -antso
- Hyphenation: ro‧màn‧zo
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Old French romanz, which stems from the Latin expression romanice loqui (“to speak in the Roman way”).[2]Cognate with English romance (noun).
Adjective
romanzo (feminine romanza, masculine plural romanzi, feminine plural romanze)
- (linguistics) Romance
Noun
romanzo m (plural romanzi)
- novel
- (figurative, by extension) literature
- il romanzo italiano del Novecento
- Italian literature of the 19th century
- romance (intimate relationship)
- romance (language)
- romanticized idea, event, etc.
Related terms
- Roma
- romantico
- romanza
- romanzaccio
- romanzare
- romanzesco
- romanzetto
- romanziere
- romanzone
Descendants
- → Greek: ρομάντζο (romántzo)
Verb
romanzo
- first-person singular present indicative of romanzare
Further reading
romanzo on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
References
- romanzo in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
- Migliorini, Bruno; Aldo Duro (1950), “romanzo”, in Prontuario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Paravia
Spanish
Verb
romanzo
- first-person singular present indicative of romanzar