Noun: romance
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | romance |
| Plural f | romances |
Sample Sentences
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C’est un beau roman, c’est une belle histoire. C’est une romance d’aujourd’hui. (It's beautiful tale, it's a beautiful story. It's a love song of today.) [1972, “Une belle histoire [A Beautiful Story]”, Pierre Delanoë (lyrics), Michel Fugain (music), performed by Michel Fugain and the Big Bazar:]
Nouns inflected like romance
polémochorie,
kératotomie,
farigoule,
compréhension,
palestre,
abnégation,
hyperuricémie,
psychométrie,
minicassette,
piézo-électricité,
potabilité,
aromathérapie,
conjugalité,
conjugaison,
cohésion,
obscurité,
bacillose,
cohæsion,
aponévrotomie,
sylvie, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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”). See: Spanish Nouns '
romance', Latin Nouns '
rōmānicus'.
Verbs referencing "romance"
Dutch Nouns
romance, Polish Nouns
romans, German Nouns
Romanze, Bulgarian Nouns
романс, Russian Nouns
романс, Romanian Nouns
romanță.
Translations