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adjective
Romanic  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to Rome or its people.
2.
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.
3.
Related to the Roman people by descent; said especially of races and nations speaking any of the Romanic tongues.
Romanic spelling, spelling by means of the letters of the Roman alphabet, as in English; contrasted with phonetic spelling.





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"Romanic" Quotes from Famous Books



... opportunity of seeing a language and a literature in the process of gestation, or at least of a reformation so great as to be almost equal to new birth. Of the stages which turned Latin through the Romanic vulgar tongues into Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Provencal, French, we have the very scantiest remains; and though the Strasburg oaths and the Eulalia hymn are no doubt inestimable in their way, they supply exceedingly minute and precarious stepping-stones by which to cross from Ausonius ...
— The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory - (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) • George Saintsbury
... Mandshu Tartars, the Mongols, the Turkish-Tartar tribes, the Samoyedes, the Fins, and the Magyars. These families have however no nearer relation to each other than the individual tongues of the Indo-European group, as the Indian, the Romanic, German, Celtic, Slavic, and Persian languages. Still he regards the Magyar and Finnic languages as having greater mutual affinities than the others, though not to such a degree that one of these races of men can be supposed to be derived ...
— The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 • Various
... and Romanic, which constitute the greater part of the English language, many other tongues have furnished their quota. Of these the Celtic is perhaps the oldest. The Britons at Caesar's invasion, were a part of the Celtic family. The ...
— How to Speak and Write Correctly • Joseph Devlin


Words linked to "Romanic" :   antiquity, roman, Eternal City, Rome, Roma


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