romanzo
Italian
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editBorrowed 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
editromanzo (feminine romanza, masculine plural romanzi, feminine plural romanze)
Noun
editromanzo m (plural romanzi)
- novel
- (figurative, by extension) literature
- il romanzo italiano del Novecento
- Italian literature of the 20th century
- romance (intimate relationship)
- Romance (language)
- romanticized (idea, event, etc.)
Related terms
editDescendants
edit- → Greek: ρομάντζο (romántzo)
Etymology 2
editVerb
editromanzo
Further reading
edit
romanzo on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
References
edit- ^ romanzo in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
- ^ Migliorini, Bruno with Aldo Duro (1950) “romanzo”, in Prontuario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Paravia
Spanish
editVerb
editromanzo
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