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Romance language   /roʊmˈæns lˈæŋgwədʒ/   Listen
Romance language

noun
1.
The group of languages derived from Latin.  Synonyms: Latinian language, Romance.





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"Romance language" Quotes from Famous Books



... this speech, word for word, to his own troops, in the Romance language, in that idiom derived from a mixture of Latin and of the tongues of ancient Gaul, and spoken, thenceforth, with varieties of dialect and pronunciation, in nearly all parts of Frankish Gaul. After this address, Louis pronounced and Charles repeated after him, each in his own ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 5 • Various
... is the poem of the Cid. It is the only epic Spain has ever produced, and is the most ancient of any in the Romance language. It is also valuable as a faithful picture of the manners and characters of the eleventh century. Indeed, the chief characteristic of Spanish song and poetry is its delineation of the national life. It is said that the Cid is the foremost poem produced in Europe from the thousand years that marked ...
— The Interdependence of Literature • Georgina Pell Curtis


Words linked to "Romance language" :   Portuguese, Italian, Rumanian, Haitian Creole, Rhaeto-Romanic, Catalan, Rhaeto-Romance, Romanian, Galician, Latin, Spanish, French


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