# Romance
## English
### Etymology

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.

### Noun

Romance (uncountable)
* The group of languages and cultures which are derived from Vulgar Latin. [from 17th c.]
** 2024, Wolfgang David Cirilo de Melo, Latin Linguistics: An Introduction, Walter de Gruyter: Berlin/Boston, p. 59f.:
    The Romance languages are normally grouped along broad geographical lines into Italo-Romance (Italian dialects, with a standard based on Tuscan); Gallo-Romance (French and Provençal); Hispano-Romance (Castilian Spanish, Catalan as less widely recognized standard, and Portuguese); Rhaeto-Romance (Romansh, Ladin, and Friulian); and Balkan Romance (Dalmatian, now extinct, and Romanian). [...] Proto-Romance was a purely spoken language, and we should at least in principle keep it separate from Vulgar Latin.

#### Meronyms

* Proto-Continental Romance
** Proto-Eastern Romance
** Proto-Italo-Western Romance
*** Proto-Western Romance, Proto-Western-Romance
**** Proto-Gallo-Romance
**** Proto-Ibero-Romance
*** Proto-Italo-Romance
* Balkan Romance
** Romanian = Wallachian
*** Daco-Romanian
*** Istro-Romanian
*** Macedo-Romanian = Aromanian = Arumanian
*** Megleno-Romanian
*** Moldovan
* Catalan (sometimes included in Ibero-Romance, sometimes in Occitano-Romance and sometimes as a bridge language between Ibero- and Gallo-Romance)
** Old Catalan
** Algherese
** Balearic
*** Mallorcan (Majorcan), Mallorquin
*** Minorcan (Menorcan)
** Valencian
* Gallo-Romance
** Franco-Provençal = Arpitan (Arpetan)
** Bourguignon
** Champenois
** French
*** Old French – Middle French – New French
** Gallo
** Norman
** Picard
** Poitevin
** Walloon
* Ibero-Romance, Iberian Romance = Hispano-Romance
** Astur-Leonese
*** Asturian
*** Leonese
** Cantabrian
** Extremaduran
** Fala
** Galician
** Mirandese
** Mozarabic
** Navarro-Aragonese
*** Aragonese
** Portuguese
** Spanish = Castilian
*** Old Spanish
*** Andalusian
*** Judaeo-Spanish (Judeo-Spanish) = Ladino
*** Mexican
* Italo-Romance
** Calabrian
** Gallo-Italian, Gallo-Italic
** Italian
*** Old Italian
*** Judeo-Italian = Italkian
** Neapolitan
*** Tarantino
** Sicilian
** Venetan
* Occitan = Provençal (broad sense) (sometimes included in Gallo-Romance and sometimes in Occitano-Romance)
** Gascon, Gascon Occitan
*** Aranese
** Languedocian
** Niçois
** Provençal (strict sense)
** Judeo-Provençal = Shuadit
* Occitano-Romance (not generally used; includes Catalan and Occitan)
* Rhaeto-Romance (Raeto-Romance, Rheto-Romance) = Rhaetian = Alpine Romance
** Friulian
** Ladin
** Romansch
* Sardinian, Sard
** Campidanese, Campidanese Sardinian
** Logudorese
** Nuorese
* Gallurese
* Sassarese
* Dalmatian
* Istro-Romance = Istriot
* Pannonian

#### Derived terms

* African Romance
* Proto-Romance
* Romance Neolatino

#### Translations
### Adjective

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), [...]

#### Synonyms

* Romanic
* Romantic

#### Derived terms

* pan-Romance
* Romance language

#### Related terms

* Romanicist
* Romantic
* Romanticism

#### Translations
### See also

* Italic
* Latin

### Anagrams

* Cameron, Canmore, Cremona, Marenco, Menorca