Romanic, a. (n.)
(rəʊˈmænɪk)
[ad. L. Rōmānic-us, f. Rōmānus Roman n.1]
1. Of languages: Descended from Latin; Romance. Also, composed, etc., in Romance; using a Romance language.
In quot. 1845 equivalent to Romansh.
| 1708 Madox Exchequer Pref. Ep. p. xii, That signification in which they are used by the Romanick writers. 1845 Proc. Philol. Soc. II. 133 The Swiss in their northern districts.., before the Romanic tongue offends the ear with its indefinite misty compromises. 1859 Hadley Ess. x. (1873) 194 The universality of this formation in the Romanic languages. 1888 P. Schaff Hist. Ch. VI. i. vi. 18 Several synods in Gaul, in the thirteenth century, prohibited the reading of the Romanic translation. |
b. absol. as n. = romance n. 1.
| 1708 Madox Exchequer Pref. Ep. p. xii, These kind of words..were originally Latin: Then were transmuted into Romanick. Ibid. p. xiii, The Latin word Senior, elder, hath a new import in the Romanick. |
2. Derived or descended from the Romans; belonging to the Romance peoples.
| 1847 Bunsen Church of Future 25 He of Romanic origin, the Reformer Calvin. 1867 Pearson Hist. Eng. I. 269 The neighbourhood of a large Romanic population. 1876 Bancroft Hist. U.S. III. iii. 49 Shall the Romanic or the Teutonic race form the seed of its people? |