Meaning

noun a relationship between two lovers

noun an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure)

noun the group of languages derived from Latin

originFrom 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”, adjective) from rōmānus (“a Roman”). Doublet of Romansch.

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