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romanzo

See also: romanzó and romanzò

Italian edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

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 edit

romanzo (feminine romanza, masculine plural romanzi, feminine plural romanze)

  1. (linguistics) Romance

Noun edit

romanzo m (plural romanzi)

  1. novel
  2. (figurative, by extension) literature
    il romanzo italiano del Novecento
    Italian literature of the 20th century
  3. romance (intimate relationship)
  4. romance (language)
  5. romanticized idea, event, etc.
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
  • → Greek: ρομάντζο (romántzo)

Etymology 2 edit

Verb edit

romanzo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of romanzare

Further reading edit

References edit

  1. ^ romanzo in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
  2. ^ Migliorini, Bruno with Aldo Duro (1950) “romanzo”, in Prontuario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Paravia

Spanish edit

Verb edit

romanzo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of romanzar
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