Romane
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁɔ.man/
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌʁoˈmaːnə/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: Ro‧ma‧ne
Latin
Old English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈroːˌmɑː.ne/
Proper noun
Rōmāne m pl
- the Romans, the nation of Rome
- c. 990, Wessex Gospels, John 11:48
- Rōmāne cumaþ and nimaþ ūre land.
- The Romans will come and take our land.
- c. 990, Wessex Gospels, John 11:48
Usage notes
- In many instances where we would use the adjective “Roman” or the phrase “of Rome,” the Anglo-Saxons often wrote literally “of the Romans”: Rōmāna rīċe (“the Roman Empire”), Rōmāna cāsere (“the Roman Empire”), Rōmāna folc (“the people of Rome”), Rōmāna bisċop (“the bishop of Rome”). This was consistent with the usage of other ethnonyms: Engla cwēn (“the queen of England,” literally “queen of the English”), Crēca hēafodburg (“the capital of Greece,” literally “capital of the Greeks”), etc.
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