roman
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- enPR: rōmən, IPA(key): /ˈɹəʊmən/
- Rhymes: -əʊmən
- Homophones: roamin' (some accents), Roman
- Hyphenation: ro‧man
AdjectiveEdit
roman (not comparable)
- (of type, typography) upright, as opposed to italic.
- 2021, Claire Cock-Starkey, Hyphens & Hashtags, Bodleian Library, page 48:
- In some early printed Bibles quoted text is indicated by changing the font from roman to italic.
- Antonyms: italic, italicised, italicized, oblique, slanted, sloped
- (of text, computing) of or related to the Latin alphabet.
NounEdit
roman (uncountable)
- (typography) One of the main three types used for the Latin alphabet (the others being italics and blackletter), in which the ascenders are mostly straight.
- (archaic) A novel.
- 2014, "Novel and Romance: Etymologies". Heyworth, Gregory; Logan, Peter Melville (ed.). Encyclopedia of the Novel, Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, p. 942. →ISBN
- Samuel Johnson, writing in his Dictionary of the English Language (1755), [defined] "novel [as] a small tale, generally of love." To modern sensibilities, Johnson's novel resembles more closely the novella in dimension and the romance in substance. [...] [T]he term romance, or roman, once interchangeable with novel in English, retains the meaning of novel in Germany, France, Russia, and most of Europe, while in the anglophone world it has been demoted to frivolity.
- 2014, "Novel and Romance: Etymologies". Heyworth, Gregory; Logan, Peter Melville (ed.). Encyclopedia of the Novel, Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, p. 942. →ISBN
Derived termsEdit
- Times New Roman (proprietary)
TranslationsEdit
See alsoEdit
Roman type on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
AnagramsEdit
AzerbaijaniEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Russian рома́н (román), ultimately from French roman.
PronunciationEdit
Audio (file)
NounEdit
roman (definite accusative romanı, plural romanlar)
- A novel.
DeclensionEdit
Declension of roman | ||||||||
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singular | plural | |||||||
nominative | roman |
romanlar | ||||||
definite accusative | romanı |
romanları | ||||||
dative | romana |
romanlara | ||||||
locative | romanda |
romanlarda | ||||||
ablative | romandan |
romanlardan | ||||||
definite genitive | romanın |
romanların |
CatalanEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
roman
- third-person singular present indicative form of romandre
- second-person singular imperative form of romandre
Crimean TatarEdit
NounEdit
roman
DeclensionEdit
nominative | roman |
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genitive | romannıñ |
dative | romanğa |
accusative | romannı |
locative | romanda |
ablative | romandan |
DanishEdit
NounEdit
roman c (singular definite romanen, plural indefinite romaner)
- A novel (work of fiction).
DeclensionEdit
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | roman | romanen | romaner | romanerne |
genitive | romans | romanens | romaners | romanernes |
ReferencesEdit
- “roman” in Den Danske Ordbog
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
roman m (plural romans, diminutive romannetje n)
- A novel (work of fiction)
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
FrenchEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Borrowed from Latin romanus[1]or derived from the French noun below,[2] itself from Old French romanz (“common language”).
AdjectiveEdit
roman (feminine romane, masculine plural romans, feminine plural romanes)
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
From Old French romanz (“common language (as opposed to Latin)”), from Vulgar Latin romanicē (“in the way of the Romans (as opposed to the Franks)”), from Latin rōmānicus, from Latin rōmānus.[3] The meaning “common language” changed into “book in common language” and then into “adventure novel”.[1] See also romance, of the same ultimate origin but borrowed through Spanish.
NounEdit
roman m (plural romans)
- a novel (work of fiction)
- (colloquial) a very long text. (see pavé)
- Il nous écrit encore un roman.
- He's writing us a novel again.
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → Albanian: roman
- → Belarusian: раман (raman)
- → Bulgarian: роман (roman)
- → Czech: román
- → Danish: roman
- → Dutch: roman
- → Estonian: romaan
- → Georgian: რომანი (romani)
- → German: Roman
- → Hebrew: רומן (román)
- → Icelandic: róman
- → Khmer: រ៉ូម៉ង់ (roumɑng)
- → Latvian: romāns
- → Lithuanian: romanas
- → Macedonian: роман (roman)
- → Norwegian: roman
- → Persian: رمان (român)
- → Romanian: roman
- → Russian: рома́н (román) (see there for further descendants)
- → Rusyn: роман (roman)
- → Serbo-Croatian: roman / роман
- → Slovak: román
- → Slovene: roman
- → Swedish: roman
- → Tajik: роман (roman)
- → Tatar: роман (roman)
- → Turkish: roman
- → Turkmen: roman
- → Ukrainian: роман (roman)
- → Uyghur: رومان (roman)
- → Uzbek: roman
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Picoche, Jacqueline; Jean-Claude Rolland (2009), “Annexe IV, roman”, in Dictionnaire étymologique du français (in French), Paris: Dictionnaires Le Robert
- ^ Etymology and history of “roman”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- ^ Dauzat, Albert; Jean Dubois, Henri Mitterand (1964), “roman”, in Nouveau dictionnaire étymologique (in French), Paris: Librairie Larousse
Further readingEdit
- “roman” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
- “roman”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
FriulianEdit
AdjectiveEdit
roman
IndonesianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Malay roman, from Dutch roman, from French roman, from Old French romanz (“common language (as opposed to Latin)”), from Vulgar Latin romanicē (“in the way of the Romans (as opposed to the Franks)”), from Latin rōmānicus < rōmānus.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
roman (plural roman-roman, first-person possessive romanku, second-person possessive romanmu, third-person possessive romannya)
- (literature) novel: a work of prose fiction, longer than a novella.
- Synonym: novel
- (colloquial) apocopic form of romansa (“love story”)
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “roman” in Online Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language [Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia Daring], Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
MalayEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Dutch roman, from French roman, from Old French romanz (“common language (as opposed to Latin)”), from Vulgar Latin romanicē (“in the way of the Romans (as opposed to the Franks)”), from Latin rōmānicus < rōmānus.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
roman (plural roman-roman, informal 1st possessive romanku, 2nd possessive romanmu, 3rd possessive romannya)
DescendantsEdit
- Indonesian: roman
Further readingEdit
- “roman” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Norwegian BokmålEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
roman m (definite singular romanen, indefinite plural romaner, definite plural romanene)
- A novel (work of fiction).
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “roman” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian NynorskEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
roman m (definite singular romanen, indefinite plural romanar, definite plural romanane)
- A novel (work of fiction).
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “roman” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
RomanianEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Borrowed from French roman (“novel, epic”), from Old French romanz.
NounEdit
roman n (plural romane)
DeclensionEdit
Etymology 2Edit
Borrowed from French roman (“a medieval romance”).
NounEdit
roman n (plural romane)
- A Medieval romance.
DeclensionEdit
Etymology 3Edit
Borrowed from Latin rōmānus. Doublet of român (“Romanian”) and rumân, which was inherited.
AdjectiveEdit
roman m or n (feminine singular romană, masculine plural romani, feminine and neuter plural romane)
DeclensionEdit
NounEdit
roman m (plural romani, feminine equivalent romană)
- A Roman.
DeclensionEdit
Related termsEdit
Serbo-CroatianEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
ròmān m (Cyrillic spelling ро̀ма̄н)
- A novel (work of fiction).
DeclensionEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “roman” in Hrvatski jezični portal
SloveneEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
romȃn m inan
- A novel (work of fiction).
InflectionEdit
Masculine inan., hard o-stem | |||
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nom. sing. | román | ||
gen. sing. | romána | ||
singular | dual | plural | |
nominative | román | romána | románi |
accusative | román | romána | románe |
genitive | romána | románov | románov |
dative | románu | románoma | románom |
locative | románu | románih | románih |
instrumental | románom | románoma | románi |
SwedishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From French roman. Related to romans (“romance”).
PronunciationEdit
audio (file)
NounEdit
roman c
- A novel (work of fiction)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of roman | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | roman | romanen | romaner | romanerna |
Genitive | romans | romanens | romaners | romanernas |
Derived termsEdit
See alsoEdit
TurkishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Ottoman Turkish رومان, from French roman.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
roman (definite accusative romanı, plural romanlar)
- A novel (work of fiction).