romance

See also: Romance, românce, and romancé

EnglishEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

From Middle English romauns, roumance, borrowed from Anglo-Norman and Old French romanz, romans (the vernacular language of France, as opposed to Latin), from Medieval Latin rōmānicē, Vulgar Latin rōmānicē (in the Roman language, adverb), from Latin rōmānicus (roman, adj) from rōmānus (a Roman). Doublet of Romansch.

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romance (countable and uncountable, plural romances)

  1. A story relating to chivalry; a story involving knights, heroes, adventures, quests, etc.
  2. A tale of high adventure.
    • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 152:
      Could one have known the past histories of some of the oddly-selected couples who shared everything in common, many a romance might have been written during what, to all outward appearances, was a dull and prosaic time to most lookers-on!
  3. An intimate relationship between two people; a love affair.
  4. A strong obsession or attachment for something or someone.
  5. Idealized love which is pure or beautiful.
  6. A mysterious, exciting, or fascinating quality.
  7. A story or novel dealing with idealized love.
  8. An embellished account of something; an idealized lie.
  9. An adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances.
    His life was a romance.
  10. A dreamy, imaginative habit of mind; a disposition to ignore what is real.
    She was so full of romance she would forget what she was supposed to be doing.
  11. (music) A romanza, or sentimental ballad.

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  • Japanese: ロマンス
  • Korean: 로맨스 (romaenseu)

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romance (third-person singular simple present romances, present participle romancing, simple past and past participle romanced)

  1. (transitive) To woo; to court.
    • 2021 February 5, Nicholas Barber, “The Great Dictator: The film that dared to laugh at Hitler”, in BBC[1]:
      In the ghetto, the gentle Barber romances a defiant washerwoman, Hannah, who is played by Chaplin's wife at the time, Paulette Goddard.
  2. (intransitive) To write or tell romantic stories, poetry, letters, etc.
  3. (intransitive) To talk extravagantly and imaginatively; to build castles in the air.

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EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from French romance.

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romance f (plural romances or romancen)

  1. (literature, music, historical) An emotional popular-historical epic ballad. [from late 18th c.]
  2. (literature, music) A sentimental love song or love story.

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FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Spanish romance, itself probably a borrowing from either Old French romanz or Old Occitan romans, meaning a narrative work in the vernacular speech, from Vulgar Latin *romanĭce (in a Roman manner), compare Medieval Latin rōmānice, ultimately from Latin rōmānicus. See also roman (novel).

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romance f (plural romances)

  1. a ballad; a love song

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VerbEdit

romance

  1. inflection of romancer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

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InterlinguaEdit

NounEdit

romance (plural romances)

  1. novel

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romance (comparative plus romance, superlative le plus romance)

  1. Romance

ItalianEdit

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romance

  1. feminine plural of romancio

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EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Old Occitan romans, from Medieval Latin, Vulgar Latin rōmānicē (in a Roman manner), from Latin rōmānicus (Roman, adjective), from rōmānus (Roman, noun), from Rōma (Rome).

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  • Hyphenation: ro‧man‧ce

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romance m (plural romances)

  1. (literature) novel (work of prose fiction)
  2. romance; love affair
    Synonym: caso

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romance m or f (plural romances, not comparable)

  1. (linguistics) Romance (of the languages derived from Latin)
    Synonyms: neolatim, romanço, românico

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PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): (Spain) /roˈmanθe/ [roˈmãn̟.θe]
  • IPA(key): (Latin America) /roˈmanse/ [roˈmãn.se]
  • (Spain) Rhymes: -anθe
  • (Latin America) Rhymes: -anse
  • Syllabification: ro‧man‧ce

Etymology 1Edit

Borrowed from Old Occitan romans, or Old French romanz, from Vulgar Latin *romanĭce, compare Medieval Latin rōmānice, ultimately from Latin rōmānicus < rōmānus. Cognates include Old French romanz, whence the modern French noun roman (novel).[1]

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romance (plural romances)

  1. Romance
    Synonym: románico
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romance m (plural romances)

  1. romance, love affair
  2. romance (genre)
  3. novel
    Synonym: novela
  4. Spanish (language)
    Synonyms: castellano, español
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  • French: romance (see there for further descendants)

Etymology 2Edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

VerbEdit

romance

  1. inflection of romanzar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ Dauzat, Albert; Jean Dubois, Henri Mitterand (1964), “romance”, in Nouveau dictionnaire étymologique (in French), Paris: Librairie Larousse

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