ˌRhæto-ˈRoman, a. and n.
Also Rhe-.
[Back-formation on Rhæto-Romance a. and n. after Roman.]
A. adj. = Rhæto-Romance a. B. n. A speaker of Rhæto-Romance.
| 1931 Times Educ. Suppl. 15 Aug. 320/4 The University of Geneva is creating a professorship in rheto-roman languages. 1933 C. D. Buck Compar. Gram. Gk. & Lat. 29 The Rhaeto-Roman dialects in parts of present Switzerland and northeastern Italy are a series of numerous dialects which cannot be reckoned as either French or Italian dialects, and of which some are used locally as written languages, as Romansh, Upper and Lower Engadine, Ladin, Friulian. 1942 K. W. Deutsch in J. A. Fishman Readings Sociol. of Lang. (1968) 601 Rheto-Romans found their ancient language introduced on a basis of full equality into the administration of Switzerland. |