Romance
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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.
- 2024, Wolfgang David Cirilo de Melo, Latin Linguistics: An Introduction, Walter de Gruyter: Berlin/Boston, p. 59f.:
- The Romance languages are normally grouped along broad geographical lines into Italo-Romance (Italian dialects, with a standard based on Tuscan); Gallo-Romance (French and Provençal); Hispano-Romance (Castilian Spanish, Catalan as less widely recognized standard, and Portuguese); Rhaeto-Romance (Romansh, Ladin, and Friulian); and Balkan Romance (Dalmatian, now extinct, and Romanian). Proto-Romance was a purely spoken language, and we should at least in principle keep it separate from Vulgar Latin.
- 2024, Wolfgang David Cirilo de Melo, Latin Linguistics: An Introduction, Walter de Gruyter: Berlin/Boston, p. 59f.:
Meronyms
- Balkan Romance
- Catalan (sometimes included in Ibero-Romance, sometimes in Occitano-Romance and sometimes as a bridge language between Ibero- and Gallo-Romance)
- Gallo-Romance
- Ibero-Romance, Iberian Romance = Hispano-Romance
- Italo-Romance
- Occitan = Provençal (broad sense) (sometimes included in Gallo-Romance and sometimes in Occitano-Romance)
- Gascon, Gascon Occitan
- Languedocian
- Niçois
- Provençal (strict sense)
- Judeo-Provençal = Shuadit
- Occitano-Romance (not generally used; includes Catalan and Occitan)
- Rhaeto-Romance (Raeto-Romance, Rheto-Romance) = Rhaetian = Alpine Romance
- Sardinian, Sard
- Gallurese
- Sassarese
- Dalmatian
- Istro-Romance = Istriot
- Pannonian
Derived terms
Translations
group of languages and cultures which are derived from Vulgar Latin
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),
- 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:
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Translations
of or dealing with languages or cultures derived from Roman influence and Latin
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