romans
Polish
noun
Definitions
- amour, love affair, romance, liaison
- (literature) (story or novel dealing with idealized love, usually with little artistic value)
- (literature) , romaunt
- (music) romance (sentimental ballad)
Etymology
Borrowed from French romance derived from Spanish, Castilian romance derived from Old French romanz (common language) derived from Old Occitan romans derived from Latin *romanĭce.
Origin
Latin
*romanĭce
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- romantic English
- *romanĭce Latin
- romanicē Latin
- rōmānice Latin
- rōmānicē Latin
- Romanze German
- romanzo Italian
- roman French
- romance French
- romance Spanish, Castilian
- romancear Spanish, Castilian
- romancero Spanish, Castilian
- romanse Norwegian Bokmål
- romance Portuguese
- romansidło Polish
- romanse Norwegian Nynorsk
- romauns Middle English
- romanz Old French
- romans Old Occitan