Romance

See also: romance, romancé, and românce

English

From Old French romanz (“vernacular language (of France)”), from Late Latin rōmānicē, from Latin rōmānicus < rōmānus + -icus. Extended in the 17th century to all languages derived from Latin.

Romance (uncountable)

The group of languages and cultures which are derived from Vulgar Latin. [from 17th c.]

group of languages and cultures which are derived from Vulgar Latin

Romance

Of or dealing with languages or cultures derived from Roman influence and Latin: French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Galician, Romanian, Catalan, Occitan, etc.
- Eulàlia Bonet and Joan Mascaró, On the representation of contrasting rhotics, in: 1997, Fernando Martínez-Gil, Alfonso Morales-Front (eds.), Issues in the Phonology and Morphology of the Major Iberian Languages, p. 103ff., here p. 103:
  In this paper we will concentrate on the problem posed by Iberian Romance languages (i.e. Catalan, Portuguese, and Spanish), [...]

of or dealing with languages or cultures derived from Roman influence and Latin

Albanian: roman (sq), romak (sq)
Arabic: رُومَانْسِيّ (rōmansiyy)
Hijazi Arabic: لاتيني (lātīni), روماني (rōmāni)
Armenian: ռոմանական (hy) (ṙomanakan)
Belarusian: рама́нскі (ramánski)
Bulgarian: рома́нски (románski)
Catalan: romànic (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 羅曼／罗曼 (luómàn), 羅馬／罗马 (zh) (Luómǎ), 拉丁 (zh) (lādīng)
Czech: románský (cs)
Danish: romansk
Dutch: Romaans (nl)
Finnish: romaaninen (fi)
French: roman (fr)
Galician: románico (gl) m
German: romanisch (de)
Greek: ρωμανικός (el) (romanikós)
Hungarian: újlatin (hu)
Icelandic: rómanskur
Interlingua: romanic (ia), romance
Italian: romanzo (it), romanico (it); neolatino (it)
Japanese: ロマンス (romansu), ロマン (ja) (roman), ローマン (rōman), ラテン (ja) (raten)
Korean: 로망스 (romangseu)
Latin: rōmānicus
Norwegian:
Bokmål: romansk (no)

Nynorsk: romansk
Occitan: romanic (oc)
Polish: romański (pl)
Portuguese: românico (pt)
Romanian: romanic (ro)
Russian: рома́нский (ru) (románskij), лати́нский (ru) (latínskij)
Scots: Romance
Slovak: románsky
Slovene: romanski (sl)
Spanish: románico (es), romance (es)
Swedish: romansk (sv)
Ukrainian: рома́нський (románsʹkyj)
Vietnamese: Rôman

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