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Definition of Romanic in US English:
Romanic
noun & adjective
- less common term for Romance
- ‘His hopes lie with the Romanic languages, which he likes to think of as ‘a single united language’ capable of forming a mighty counterweight to the loathed language of capitalism.’
Origin
Early 18th century: from Latin Romanicus, from Romanus ‘Roman’.
