Romance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
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.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 2024, Wolfgang David Cirilo de Melo, Latin Linguistics: An Introduction, Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter, page 59f:
glosses: The group of languages and cultures which are derived from Vulgar Latin.
Meronyms: word: Proto-Eastern Romance
word: Proto-Gallo-Romance
word: Proto-Ibero-Romance
word: Proto-Western Romance
word: Proto-Western-Romance
word: Proto-Italo-Romance
word: Proto-Italo-Western Romance
word: Proto-Continental Romance
word: Daco-Romanian
word: Istro-Romanian
word: Macedo-Romanian = Aromanian = Arumanian
word: Megleno-Romanian
word: Moldovan
word: Romanian = Wallachian
word: Balkan Romance
word: Old Catalan
word: Algherese
alt: Majorcan
word: Mallorcan
word: Mallorquin
alt: Menorcan
word: Minorcan
word: Balearic
word: Valencian
alt: sometimes included in Ibero-Romance, sometimes in Occitano-Romance and sometimes as a bridge language between Ibero- and Gallo-Romance
word: Catalan
roman: Arpetan
word: Franco-Provençal = Arpitan
word: Bourguignon
word: Champenois
word: Old French – Middle French – New French
word: French
word: Gallo
word: Norman
word: Picard
word: Poitevin
word: Walloon
word: Gallo-Romance
word: Asturian
word: Leonese
word: Astur-Leonese
word: Cantabrian
word: Extremaduran
word: Fala
word: Galician
word: Mirandese
word: Mozarabic
word: Aragonese
word: Navarro-Aragonese
word: Portuguese
word: Old Spanish
word: Andalusian
english: Judeo-Spanish
translation: Judeo-Spanish
word: Judaeo-Spanish = Ladino
word: Mexican
word: Spanish = Castilian
word: Ibero-Romance
english: Iberian Romance
translation: Iberian Romance
word: Hispano-Romance
word: Calabrian
word: Gallo-Italian
word: Gallo-Italic
word: Old Italian
english: Judeo-Italian
translation: Judeo-Italian
word: Italkian
word: Italian
word: Tarantino
word: Neapolitan
word: Sicilian
word: Venetan
word: Italo-Romance
word: Aranese
word: Gascon
word: Gascon Occitan
word: Languedocian
word: Niçois
word: Provençal
word: Judeo-Provençal = Shuadit
roman: sometimes included in Gallo-Romance and sometimes in Occitano-Romance
word: Occitan = Provençal
alt: not generally used; includes Catalan and Occitan
word: Occitano-Romance
word: Friulian
word: Ladin
word: Romansch
alt: Raeto-Romance, Rheto-Romance
word: Rhaeto-Romance = Rhaetian = Alpine Romance
word: Campidanese
word: Campidanese Sardinian
word: Logudorese
word: Nuorese
word: Sardinian
word: Sard
word: Gallurese
word: Sassarese
word: Dalmatian
word: Istro-Romance = Istriot
word: Pannonian
Derived terms: African Romance
Proto-Romance
Romance Neolatino