romance

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See also: Romance, românce, and romancé

English

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Etymology

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From Middle English romauns, roumance, borrowed from Anglo-Norman and Old French romanz, romans (the vernacular language of France, as opposed to Latin), from Medieval Latin rōmānicē, Vulgar Latin rōmānicē (in the Roman language, adverb), from Latin rōmānicus (roman, adj) from rōmānus (a Roman). Doublet of Romansch.

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romance (countable and uncountable, plural romances)

  1. A story relating to chivalry; a story involving knights, heroes, adventures, quests, etc.
  2. A tale of high adventure.
    • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 152:
      Could one have known the past histories of some of the oddly-selected couples who shared everything in common, many a romance might have been written during what, to all outward appearances, was a dull and prosaic time to most lookers-on!
  3. An intimate relationship between two people; a love affair.
  4. A strong obsession or attachment for something or someone.
  5. Idealized love which is pure or beautiful.
  6. A mysterious, exciting, or fascinating quality.
  7. A story or novel dealing with idealized love.
  8. An embellished account of something; an idealized lie.
  9. An adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances.
    His life was a romance.
  10. A dreamy, imaginative habit of mind; a disposition to ignore what is real.
    She was so full of romance she would forget what she was supposed to be doing.
  11. (music) A romanza, or sentimental ballad.

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Descendants

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  • Japanese: ロマンス
  • Korean: 로맨스 (romaenseu)

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Verb

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romance (third-person singular simple present romances, present participle romancing, simple past and past participle romanced)

  1. (transitive) To woo; to court.
    • 2015 November 15, Meghan Blythe Adams, “Renegade Sex: Compulsory Sexuality and Charmed Magic Circles in the Mass Effect series”, in Loading… The Journal of the Canadian Game Studies Association[1], volume 9, number 14, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 May 2018, page 47:
      A female Shepard can romance bisexual Yeoman Kelly Chambers, but doing so does not yield a Paramour achievement or an implied sex scene the way that romancing ‘official’ interests does. Similarly, the player can attempt to romance the Asari Samara or her Ardat-Yakshi daughter Morinth, but the former will refuse and sex with the latter will kill Shepard.
    • 2021 February 5, Nicholas Barber, “The Great Dictator: The film that dared to laugh at Hitler”, in BBC[2]:
      In the ghetto, the gentle Barber romances a defiant washerwoman, Hannah, who is played by Chaplin's wife at the time, Paulette Goddard.
  2. (intransitive) To write or tell romantic stories, poetry, letters, etc.
  3. (intransitive) To talk extravagantly and imaginatively; to build castles in the air.

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Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French romance.

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Noun

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romance f (plural romances or romancen)

  1. (literature, music, historical) an emotional popular-historical epic ballad [from late 18th c.]
  2. (literature, music) a sentimental love song or love story

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French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish romance, itself probably a borrowing from either Old French romanz or Old Occitan romans, meaning a narrative work in the vernacular speech, from Vulgar Latin *romanĭce (in a Roman manner), compare Medieval Latin rōmānice, ultimately from Latin rōmānicus. See also roman (novel).

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romance f (plural romances)

  1. a ballad; a love song

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Verb

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romance

  1. inflection of romancer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Interlingua

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Noun

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romance (plural romances)

  1. novel

Adjective

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romance (comparative plus romance, superlative le plus romance)

  1. Romance

Italian

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Adjective

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romance

  1. feminine plural of romancio

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Portuguese

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Old Occitan romans, from Medieval Latin, Vulgar Latin rōmānicē (in a Roman manner), from Latin rōmānicus (Roman, adjective), from rōmānus (Roman, noun), from Rōma (Rome).

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  • Hyphenation: ro‧man‧ce

Noun

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romance m (plural romances)

  1. (literature) novel (work of prose fiction)
  2. romance; love affair
    Synonym: caso

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Adjective

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romance m or f (plural romances, not comparable)

  1. (linguistics) Romance (of the languages derived from Latin)
    Synonyms: neolatim, romanço, românico

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Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (Spain) /roˈmanθe/ [roˈmãn̟.θe]
  • IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /roˈmanse/ [roˈmãn.se]
  • Rhymes: -anθe
  • Rhymes: -anse
  • Syllabification: ro‧man‧ce

Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Old Occitan romans, or Old French romanz, from Vulgar Latin *romanĭce, compare Medieval Latin rōmānice, ultimately from Latin rōmānicus < rōmānus. Cognates include Old French romanz, whence the modern French noun roman (novel).[1]

Adjective

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romance m or f (masculine and feminine plural romances)

  1. Romance
    Synonym: románico
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Noun

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romance m (plural romances)

  1. romance, love affair
  2. romance (genre)
  3. novel
    Synonym: novela
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Descendants
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  • French: romance (see there for further descendants)

Noun

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romance m (uncountable)

  1. Spanish (language)
    Synonyms: castellano, español
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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romance

  1. inflection of romanzar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

References

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  1. ^ Dauzat, Albert with Jean Dubois, Henri Mitterand (1964) “romance”, in Nouveau dictionnaire étymologique (in French), Paris: Librairie Larousse

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