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Romance

nounadjectivecommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//rə(ʊ)ˈman(t)s//
  • United Kingdom//ˈrəʊman(t)s//
  • United States//roʊˈmæn(t)s//
  • India//roˈmæns//

The group of languages and cultures which are derived from Vulgar Latin.

noun

  1. 1

    The group of languages and cultures which are derived from Vulgar Latin.

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.

adjective

  1. 1

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

    In this paper we will concentrate on the problem posed by Iberian Romance languages (i.e. Catalan, Portuguese, and Spanish), …

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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