romance
EnglishEdit
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.
PronunciationEdit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɹoʊˈmæns/, /ˈɹoʊˌmæns/, enPR: rō-măns'
- (UK) IPA(key): /ɹəˈmæns/, /ˈɹəʊˌmæns/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -æns, -əʊmæns
NounEdit
romance (countable and uncountable, plural romances)
- A story relating to chivalry; a story involving knights, heroes, adventures, quests, etc.
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
- `Will you undertake the task? We give you complete freedom, and as a reward you will, we believe, have the credit of presenting to the world the most wonderful history, as distinguished from romance, that its records can show.'
- 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!
- An intimate relationship between two people; a love affair.
- A strong obsession or attachment for something or someone.
- Idealized love which is pure or beautiful.
- A mysterious, exciting, or fascinating quality.
- A story or novel dealing with idealized love.
- An embellished account of something; an idealized lie.
- An adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances.
- His life was a romance.
- 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.
- (music) A romanza, or sentimental ballad.
QuotationsEdit
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:romance.
AntonymsEdit
- (intimate relationship): platonic, platonic relationship, platonic love, nonromance, antiromance (with respect to intimacy)
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VerbEdit
romance (third-person singular simple present romances, present participle romancing, simple past and past participle romanced)
- (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.
- (intransitive) To write or tell romantic stories, poetry, letters, etc.
- (intransitive) To talk extravagantly and imaginatively; to build castles in the air.
SynonymsEdit
- (to woo, court): make love, put the moves on, solicit; see also Thesaurus:woo
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NounEdit
romance f (plural romances or romancen)
- (literature, music, historical) An emotional popular-historical epic ballad. [from late 18th c.]
- (literature, music) A sentimental love song or love story.
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DescendantsEdit
- → Indonesian: romansa
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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NounEdit
romance f (plural romances)
- a ballad; a love song
- 1972, Pierre Delanoë (lyrics), Michel Fugain (music), “Une belle histoire [A Beautiful Story]”, performed by Michel Fugain and the Big Bazar:
- C’est un beau roman, c’est une belle histoire. C’est une romance d’aujourd’hui.
- It's beautiful tale, it's a beautiful story. It's a love song of today.
DescendantsEdit
VerbEdit
romance
- inflection of romancer:
Further readingEdit
- “romance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
InterlinguaEdit
NounEdit
romance (plural romances)
AdjectiveEdit
romance (comparative plus romance, superlative le plus romance)
ItalianEdit
AdjectiveEdit
romance
AnagramsEdit
PortugueseEdit
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”).
PronunciationEdit
- Hyphenation: ro‧man‧ce
NounEdit
romance m (plural romances)
- (literature) novel (work of prose fiction)
- romance; love affair
- Synonym: caso
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AdjectiveEdit
romance m or f (plural romances, not comparable)
- (linguistics) Romance (of the languages derived from Latin)
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SpanishEdit
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]
AdjectiveEdit
romance (plural romances)
Derived termsEdit
NounEdit
romance m (plural romances)
- romance, love affair
- romance (genre)
- novel
- Synonym: novela
- Spanish (language)
- Synonyms: castellano, español
HyponymsEdit
- romance histórico (“historical romance”)
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → French: romance (see there for further descendants)
Etymology 2Edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
VerbEdit
romance
- inflection of romanzar:
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Dauzat, Albert; Jean Dubois, Henri Mitterand (1964), “romance”, in Nouveau dictionnaire étymologique (in French), Paris: Librairie Larousse
Further readingEdit
- “romance”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014