Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or derived from the ancient Romans.
- adjective Of or relating to the Romance languages.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to the Romance languages or dialects. or to the races or nations speaking any of the Romance tongues; Romance.
- Being in or derived from the Roman alphabet.
- Printed in roman type.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to Rome or its people.
- adjective Of or pertaining to any or all of the various languages which, during the Middle Ages, sprung out of the old Roman, or popular form of Latin, as the Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Provencal, etc.
- adjective Related to the Roman people by descent; -- said especially of races and nations speaking any of the Romanic tongues.
- adjective spelling by means of the letters of the Roman alphabet, as in English; -- contrasted with
phonetic spelling .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or relating to
Rome or its people. - adjective Of or relating to any or all of the various
languages which, during theMiddle Ages , sprung out of the old Roman, or popular form of Latin, as the Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Provencal, etc. - adjective Related to the Roman people by descent; said especially of races and nations speaking any of the Romanic tongues.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to or derived from Rome (especially ancient Rome)
Etymologies
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Examples
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I do understand and speak "Romanic" Languages(speak Italian, French and understand Spanish, Portuguese), "West German" Languages (English, a bit German an Swiss German) and an "Altaic" one (perfect Turkish)!
On being linguistically defeated DC 2008
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This particular city offers access to a very special Underground trip, as the sexton of one of its twohundredsomething Romanic churches was explaining to me right now.
Taking Leave Luisa Brenta 2011
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As you may know, ours is a country where people who speak four distinct native languages (Italian, French, German and Rhaeto-Romanic) live comfortably together on the principles of the world's oldest democracy, integrating a 21 percent foreign population.
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Furthermore, why is it that Pinyin hasn't evolve to actually reflect Romanic sounds.
tongyong pinyin haters: you are all colonialist shits Michael Turton 2006
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“Does this man Romanic move very slowly?” he asked.
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“Does this man Romanic move very slowly?” he asked.
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Smith's perfection of the sonnet as a vehicle for Romanic poetry certainly informs Robinson's experimentation with the form.
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The invaders had not saddled themselves with the inhibiting baggage of Romanic civilization, Christian morality, or, in general, real property.
The Early Middle Ages 500-1000 Robert Brentano 1964
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Modern attention tends to concentrate on the Romanic French side of the splitting Frankish world of the ninth and tenth centuries, because a particularly strong and creative society would find its center there in succeeding centuries.
The Early Middle Ages 500-1000 Robert Brentano 1964
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Both also recalled for themselves something of the specifically Roman past; neither was untouched by that pervasive nostalgia for Rome that satisfied the sentiment of ruler and subject, as it conveniently lent the ruler the air of imperial dignity and soothed the subject, particularly the old Romanic subject, with a sense of continuity.
The Early Middle Ages 500-1000 Robert Brentano 1964
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